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The Ten Cow-Herding Pictures
by Dustin Junkert

NDR, December 2011
http://ndrmag.org/poetry/2011/12/the-ten-cow-herding-pictures/

For D.T. Suzuki

1. We do not go into the mountains
2. to seek solitude. And if we think
3. that's what we find there, well,
4. thinking (sometimes the whole
5. problem) has a way of mistaking
6. the whole for the parts, the lost
7. for the found. The emptiness
8. is so deep, even nothing
9. can't fill it. Touching the many
10. weeds, we return with no advice.

 

NDR (New Delta Review) is a literary journal produced by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University.