Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on “Return to the Source”
By Gary Snyder
At the last turn in the path
“goodbye—”
—bending, bowing,
(moss and a bit of
wild
bird-)
down.
Daitoku-ji Monastery
Gary Snyder, "Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on 'Return to the Source'" from Left Out in the Rain:New Poems 1947-1985. Copyright © 2005 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.
Source:
No Nature: New and Selected Poems
(Counterpoint Press, 1992)
