Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten especially when describing a counterintuitive

especially when describing a counterintuitive path

the child in her left

It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom

Swashbuckling monitor lizards

Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten especially when describing a counterintuitiveSatori Blues is an extended, Zen inspired response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post Buddhist philosophies. Composed as a stream of thoughtat times epigrammatic, philosophical, fragmented, even exclamatorythe poem becomes a concerted movement within a space of meditation, as well as a sustained, psychological record of a yearning towards spiritual truth and clarity.