CONJUNCTIONS:1 Fall 1981

Five Poems Montri Umavijani

AT THE PLACE I  will  be  better  off, if  I  do  not  speak: the  kindred  appearance is  broken, as  the  word  is  spoken. THE STUPAS The  stupas beckon  to  heaven with  the  backs  of  their  hands: they  ask to  have  heaven  come  down and  man  go  over. MAHAYANA Myriads  of  Buddhas  sit in  latticed  stupas, whose  teachings  are  unheard, while  the  unseen  one behind  and  above is  speaking  the  word. AT THE TOP OF THE STUPAS Even  heaven dared  not  make  itself  felt around  the  stupas  in  ruins; heaven  merely  attended to  an  indifference greater  than  itself. ON ARRIVAL I  will  bring  with  me the  flowers  that  have  leapt to  the  top  stupa and  dissolved  into a  dilatory  memory.