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AFTER IKKYU: 12 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT HERE AND NOW BUT NOW AND HERE
Last Line: AND STUDY THE TICKING OF YOUR WATCH.
Subject(s): ZEN BUDDHISM;

Not here and now but now and here.
If you don't know the difference
is a matter of life and death, get down
naked on bare knees in the snow
and study the ticking of your watch.



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