(1) Footnote. (2) First Footing.(3) Bliss. (4) Japanese Tea Ceremony.

                 1

           Footnote.


        This year in which I write,
    Is now last year somewhere else;
The ticking of the clock wears me out.


                  2


         First Footing


        New Years Day.
Breaking out of the cocoon.
 All the house is sleeping.


                 3.

           
             Bliss.


Japanese porcelain
Gives me a sense of peace
No Buddha or Christ
Can give.

Put the roses over there, by
the chair, the wicker chair
by the window.
Put them on the small table:
The rough old vase will do.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
December 31st. 2015.
January 1st. 2016.

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                 4


Japanese Tea Ceremony.


Welcomed the New Year with
the Tea Ceremony,
More holy than the Eucharist.

No wine was spilled.
No bread was broken.
No images of ancient cruelty.

Just a peaceful hour or two at home:
Rain soft upon the window,
Daffodils blooming in the garden

More abundant than last spring.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
January 2nd. 2016.