How to Proceed

Numb and in a quandary— 

Dazed, disengaged, stymied. 

Here is your birth chart, 

which I have calculated 

and drawn by hand. 

I deliver it by hand. 

One can’t be too careful. 

There is much here about 

fear and loss of control. 

Take this mosaic, these 

jagged bits for in it 

I see gossamer sails 

filled with the moon-lost wind 

ride the ragged waves.

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Richard Denner (aka Jampa Dorje): Printer-Poet-Yogi-Monk. Born 1941 in Santa Clara, California. Berkeley street poet in the 1960s. Graduated from University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Impresario of D Press and Kapala Press (www.dpress.net).  Completed traditional Tibetan Buddhist three-year solitary retreat at Tara Mandala in Colorado. Now lives in Ellensburg, Washington.