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To Deb, always
And, in memoriam, to
Jim Harrison Kobun Chino, Sensei Bob Watkins
and
Barry Spacks
To study the way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be awakened to all things.
Dōgen, AD 1233
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
Wallace Stevens, 1921
Contents
6 A Mask
2 Poem to Be Given a Seafaring Title at a Later Date
1 from Letters to a Distant Friend
from Snow on the Backs of Animals
4 Return
6 December
