The Mason-Dixon Sutra, poems by Bob Snyder, P.J. Laska and Joseph Barrett, 1990

Sativa’s Epistemological Advice

Sativa told the Abbot,
you touch small sections
with blind elephant hands.

I know, I know,
said the Abbot,
what more can I do?

Open other modalities,
she said, turn on
the inner light.

–poem by P.J. Laska.

Excerpted from The Mason-Dixon Sutra, poems by Bob Snyder, P.J. Laska and Joseph Barrett, (Igneus Press, 1990)