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Linda Dimitroff, Scattered
Samudaya
Second Noble Truth of Buddhism
Maria Berardi


Knowing being, this life, alive,
is but the flight of a swallow
through one open window
through a room
through another window, out– 
that brief, that
 
all the wise ones say
we must know each moment as it comes
know as relationship 
not as knowledge
so we do not miss it
so we do not miss our only life
 
and yet–
and yet– 
it is impossible, 
it is holding a tiny snowball,
at some point you feel its cold too much
and you drop it, 
 
or you are distracted and it melts
in your hot greedy hand.
hello     goodbye
welcome     farewell
recognition      release
impossible     all there is
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