"How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea/Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" William Shakespeare asked a question that still reverberates down to our war ravaging, world destroying, and nature polluting age. Power, ignorance, and willful deceit, not just time, work to destroy life. Buddha silently held up a flower pointing to reality that the world had ignored whose smile of awareness one of his followers had directly seen and experienced for himself. The poems in this book interweave these two themes. Themes of the power of what is seemingly without power to assuage human...

An intellectual and spiritual autobiography written through poetry, literary and myth analysis, Jungian therapy and ideas, Zen experience and practice, and the nature of the seasons and their effect on our lives.

Wallace Stevens: "The poem is the cry of its occasion, Part of the res itself and not about it The poet speaks the poem as it is...."