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mantram
john martone
samuddo / ocean
2014
mantram
copyright 2014 john martone
samuddo / ocean
ISBN 978-1-312-23608-0
johnmartone@gmail.com
mantram
junk man 7
little dream 21
Many-calling is nothing but the accumulation of single callings, for human life is such
that a person should consider each day that this may be his last, each minute that this
may be the end. From the very moment of our birth, this realm of impermanence is
merely a feeting and temporary dwelling; our lives may be compared to a lantern fame
before the wind, or likened to dew upon a blade of grass, and there is no escape anywhere
for even a single person, whether wise or foolish, from the extinction of breath and the
draining away of life. If our eyes may close forever even in this present instant, then we
say Namu-amida-butsu, aspiring to be saved by Amida's Primal Vow and welcomed
into the Pure Land of perfect bliss, based on our trust in the supreme virtues embodied in
a single calling and our reliance on the great and vast beneft of that one calling.
Ryukan / Shinran
bird
in the house
story
of his life
junk man
10
his chair
his garden statues
everythings empty
trash
blowing thru yards
a sailboat on jacks
11
an undershirt
& the grass
so tall
12
martones
postwar truck-garage
gone gone gone beyond
just sit
junkyard
sinks in
carburetor
spring & set-screw
at 16!
rebar
for tomato plants
13
junk yard
even the rain barrel
overfows!
each & every
molecule
one junkyard
junkyards
an ocean too
14
spring
peeper
rachet
sound
clockwise
or
counter
15
pine cones fall on those torn-out windows
16
a junkyard
after the rain
a mandala
secret world
vacuum tube
radio works!
vacuum tube
you always
wanted to
live inside
vacuum tube
lit up is
a city
17
grounding rod
an earthworm
his crystal
radio
in the mud
his telegraph key
his telegraph key
electrical tape
pipe-joint tape
drywall tape
his frst
tape-measure
wont coil
18
earthworm
surpassing
his tap-&-die set
ancient green
cookie-tin
full of nails
a sump
pump
motor
19
this spiritual being a junkyard
20
junk man
that paper wasp
gets to work
rocking chair
a junk mans
setting sail
propeller plane
clear above
his junkyard
21
trans
parent
milli
meter
wings
alight
on this
junk man

22
a junk yard now
the next step
forgetting
little
dream
letting
go
little
dream
ocean
waves
breathe
& hear
breathe
& see
little
dream
little dream
24
little
dream
mother
calls
a fbonacci series
little
dream
25
diastole systole
that mandala
little dream
needles
eye
little
dream
26
clinging
to that
bodhi
sattva
shipbeam
statue
little
dream
27
whered
you go
old
blue car
little
dream
little
dream
gone
like that
medie
val
pearl
her
talking
toy
a
little
dream
28
amyloid
plaques
& cockle
shells
little
dream
room
after
room
what
house is
this
little
dream
never
ever
fuent
little
dream
& why
not
nothing
little
dream
here theres
no thread
little dream
29
talking
circles
little
dream
whered all those
pictures go
little
dream
out thru
the skylight
little
dream
30
kitchen
chair
little
dream
hands
& knees
scrubbing
foors
little
dream
everyone
under
the dogwood
little
dream
a baseball
lost in
gladioli
little
dream
meat
cut-up
for that
sick
boy
upstairs
little
dream
31
falling
down
the cape
cod
stairs
little
dream
folding laundry
catechism
little
dream
false teeth
bald
in
over
alls
little
dream
32
next-door neighbors
next-door strangers
little dream
rubbing
her forehead
as if
erasing
little
dream
now
youve lost
a
daughter
too
little
dream
when all
began
to fall
apart
little
dream
33
blue
slippers
shuffing
off
little
dream
dont
know how
toss
a ball
any
more
little
dream
they operate
& you
take a bus
to heaven
little
dream
that mandala
bound to fade
little dream
34
dreamlet
eyelet
knuckled hands
cellar
stairs
coming
back

little
dream
ping-pong
table
fallout
shelter
mildew
cellar
little
dream
pyrex
lab fask
little
dream
wind bells but
windows closed
little dream
throw crusts
to sparrows
little
dream
mourning dove
& homing pigeon
little dream
35
little
dream
paintings
line
a
bedroom
hall
slipped
a disc
making
beds
little
dream
36
bending
close to
heathkit
shortwave
cellar
pegboard
knife-switch
logbook
listen
little
dream
gas stove
shirt
& long
hair
catching
fre
little
dream
little
dream
gluing
plastic
parts
together
37
now dont
cry
little
dream
all
it was
broken
back
teeth hips
eyes
feet &
brain
at last
little
dream
38
little dream
a hurricane
39
little dream
unafraid
no idea
who you are
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