For each of us there is a place

Wherein we will tolerate no disorder.

We habitually clean and reorder it,

But we allow many other surfaces and regions

To grow dusty, rank and wild.

- Philip Whalen

Watching the “waterfall” (more accurately, “water curtain”)

- Philip Whalen

I love you very much

But sometimes I love you even more from a distance

Never to the vanishing point

- Philip Whalen

What do I want

What am I really after

Sometimes a tree answers.

- Philip Whalen

All the constituents of being are

Transitory: Work out your salvation with diligence.

- Buddha

Now I am old and infirm. I fear I shall no more be

able to roam among the beautiful mountains. Clarifying my mind, I meditate

on the mountain trails and wander about only in dreams.

- Tsung Ping

I always say I won’t go back to the mountains

I am too old and fat there are bugs mean mules

And pancakes every morning of the world

- Philip Whalen

PAY NO ATTENTION TO ME

- Philip Whalen

I guess my troubles are pride

And doubt.

- Philip Whalen

Suppose we were the first to begin

Living forever. Let’s start

Right now.

Do you want this peach?

It’s immortal.

- Philip Whalen

If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?

Philip Whalen

I need everything else

Anything else

Desperately

But I have nothing

Shall have nothing

but this

Immediate, inescapable

and invaluable

No one can afford

THIS

Being made here and now

We can’t easily imagine another world

This one being barely

Visible

- Philip Whalen

still learning to speak the language

of revolving doors

- leslie mcintosh

coriolis effect

leslie mcintosh

one man calls another

                                                         baby

                             though not in comparison

the alternative is to drown in silence

- matt longabucco

A word is a thought

- Dorothea Lasky