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Tradition

every year
we dive down to bring her up

Mary
head blue covered
doved hands
water sheets down
marbled cloth

(who puts her back each time)

 

the koan about
vessels of water
one with holes
one turned down
one upright

but we keep forgetting

      which we should be

 

Kathleen Mitchell-Askar lives, works, and writes in Sacramento. Her work has recently appeared in DIAGRAM and SWWIM Every Day.

 

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