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Long moments
Watching the hairy woodpecker
Making her way
Up the burnt and blackened ponderosa
From recent wildfire
Bark flicking off
Probing, insistent pecking
While the figures and shadows
Of turkey vultures
Cut across sky
On this promontory
Ridge with afternoon updraft
And views
out over
The great valley
Even to the Coast Ranges.
Upholder of the way
Keeper
Of the practice
Grooved deep in instinct
Buddha
To my bodhisattva
I vow
To listen
To your braaap-bra-da-dap
As intently as to
A temple bell
Calling
To prayer.
15 November 2019
Kentucky Ridge, 2300’
Moon past full, waiting for rain
Mountaineity 