by Jack Dempster
being low in a good way beat down beatific
unshaken from quietude roughed up made ecstatic
thrown about towns unto new streets uprooted
finding wrapped
up energy routes pockets new places
sit read love meditate
know and grow
write verse
rock and roll bars beers
plants shuffled black market
moods impressions being at one with Tao empty
allowing phenomena flow wild
stream
clouds on sky tracing footprints
haikulike discovering vastness
cold wandering vastness
searching
out blank frozen swamps brickstone
ease-of-tension sinking into serene
wayward finding
freshness cannot stay rooted
seeking passionately
glimmering dreaminess of night beaches rooms
places where fate has chanced to send
you into oh the
joy being swept into swirling waves
universe pulsates transfigures itself rotates Hydralike
vast channels windy energy great powers
learning to dance with their multiwaved
currents ah
cosmic dancer uplifting cosmic tides
swirling…
— from Juniper Volume 1, Issue 3