A certain kind of ghost

"Most Honoured One, I have a question to ask you. If sons and daughters of good families want to develop the highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind, if they wish to attain the Highest Perfect Wisdom, what should they do to help quiet their drifting minds and help subdue their craving thoughts?" (Diamond Sutra)

And as you walk

down the street –

the certainty of cold wind

slapping your face –

you’ll remember you wanted

to cure the incurable,

save the unsavoury and

split emptiness

with raw contempt.

And with a mastery you

didn’t think possible:

the certainty you will die,

on a Tuesday.

As if living, you’d made

love possible,

in all kinds of tongues.

Published in Eunoia Review