GLASGOW ZEN
Alan Spence
To
Edwin Morgan
CONTENTS
Glasgow Zen
Jingle
Joshu’s Mu
Japanese Boxes
Today
Motorway Red
Rag
Paddy’s
Sing
Lorry
Song
Prayer Flag
Silver
Tarnish
Eye of the Storm
Loop
Touching the Void
Same Old
As Light
Seeing Mount Fuji
EM
Football Haiku
The Pundits
Glasgow’s Full of Poets
After the Japanese (1)
After the Japanese (2)
Issa
Ryokan
Santoka
Oracle
Glasgow Zen (2)
Coda
On the oneness of self and universe
IT’S AW WAN
TAE ME
On the ultimate identity of matter and spirit, form and void
WHIT’S THE MATTER?
NUTHIN!
On the suchness of things
AYE, THIS IS IT
THIS IS THE THING
On identity in difference
SIX AN
HAUF A DOZEN
On the implicit dualism of value-judgements
IT’S AWFUL
GOOD
Jingle on Glasgow city arms
This is the bell that never rang
This is the fish that never swam
This is the tree that never grew
This is the bird that never flew
This is the bell that never rang
This
RANG
This is
RANG RANG
This is the bell
RANG
This is the bell that
RANG
This is never
RANG
This is never the bell that
RANG
This is the rang bell
RANG RANG RANG
This is the bell that
RANG RANG RANG RANG
never
This is the tree that never grew
This tree never grew green
This green tree never grew
Neverever green grew this tree
This tree grew never evergreen
This is the bird that never flew
this is the
bird
this is the
