JIKU book excerpt #203

 

a field mouse ~

faltering . . . hovel silence ~

autumn’s evening . . . frost

Excerpt from the book JIKU #116 ( Ode to Robert Wright)

 

Up the Mountain ~

in my hovel . . . this other road ~

it’s my world

JIKU book excerpt # 189

 

pine cones ~

sticky sappy here there, ~

everywhere pine cones

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

Up the Mtn # 190

half awake . . . just . . .  ~

field mice . . . scampering  ~

on my roof . . . right ?

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

stained by pitch & sap ~

my hickory handled axe ~

splitting wet firewood

JIKU book excerpt # 165

 

thunderous booming ~

piercing crackles . . . lightning ~

swollen, pregnant clouds ~

birthed on a mountain side ~

divine intuition

Untitled

 

Blue & Green ~

Miles in 59 ~

(sounds on vinyl)

O’Keeffe in 60 ~

(oil on canvas)

Another JIKU excerpt

 

life splintering ~

relationships flickering ~

a cloud a bear witness

Up the Mtn #215

 

my journeys my home ~

time, love, fellow travelers ~

a wanderous life

Up the Mtn #185

 

(grateful) transcendence ~

(moonlit) Cherry Blossoms . . . floating ~

“this other World” 

Up the Mtn #115

 

warm dusk  lust drizzles ~

her parasol swollen   wet ~

COME !      lingering heat ~

crimson Moon (iro) softens ~

morning glory (iros) waning

Up the Mtn #248

 

fleeting warmth ~

autumn’s hush . . . stillness ~

interim’s season ~

airs still . . . pregnant with change ~

moonlight . . . shaded with coolness

Serenity #33

 

sense . . .  see . .  hear . . . know ~

without seeing, hearing, knowing ~

this is the tao ~

cultivate te . . . & ~

everything returns to . . .

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #32

 

physical ephemera ~

to bloom & wilt ~

ethereal wisdom ~

birth- life - death ~

transcendence

(Prompted, honkadoried from Aescylus)

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #31

 

capitalism ~ 

segregating ~

moral values

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #25

 

subtle nuanced ~

textured surface coloration ~

look touch feel ~

hands-on hard work . . . Art Education ~

curing tobacco

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #30

 life’s non-linear ~

processing ~

emotional waves

Samadhi (#1)

 on a peak finding stillness 

mountains surround me

clouds come n’ go 

recalling my hovel

hermitage “Up the Mtn”