for Merrill Gilfillan <br /> <br />'A little loving can solve a lot of things' <br />She locates two spatial equivalents in <br />The same time continuum. 'You are lovely. I <br />am lame.' 'Now it's me.' 'If a man is in <br />Solitude, the world is translated, my world <br />& wings sprout from the shoulders of 'The Slave'' <br />Yeah. I like the fiery butterfly puzzles <br />Of this pilgrimage toward clarities <br />Of great mud intelligence & feeling. <br />'The Elephant is the wisest of all animals <br />The only one who remembers his former lives <br />& he remains motionless for long periods of time <br />Meditating thereon.' I'm not here, now, <br />& it is good, absence.<br /><br />Ted Berrigan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/buddha-on-the-bounty/
