DUANE LOCKE

IF I HAD CREATED THE WORLD,
THERE WOULD BE MORE GENTLENESS,
BUT PERHAPS LESS BEAUTY

A Great Blue Heron
Stalks.

I sensed at once the beauty of hunger
In a world so created that life lives on life.

An insight into beauty is terrible,
But truth must be accepted.

I though if I had created the world,
I would have created it otherwise.

I would have created the world after the yogin's dream:
Everything would live on prana, air, not other lives.


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