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.
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.