Zen Garden at Kokedera
In the year 1339, in the city of Kyoto
Muso Soseki built a waterfall
without a drop of water,
a dry cataract of boulders
tumbling immobile down the hill
these six centuries and more.
Approach with care
here the silence roars.
Everywhere else, moss, moist and fresh
a hundred kinds, mauve, brown,
orange, grey, shade upon shade of green
envelops the rocks, spreading gently, calmly,
to the pond below, Pure Land garden of paradise.
All around it, a path, following curves,
leads through the trees to the water
and up again, yes, up again
for the dry cascade
immutable, enigmatic,
stripped to the bare bones
is calling, shouting
wake up! wake up!
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