SQN - Sine Qua Non - Issue Two - Journal - Page 50
SINE QUA NON
Kate Falvey
Sophia Naz
Zen Triptych 3: |e One About the Bottom Falling Out
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Abrâ-Cadaver
Float
Chiyono lugged the bucket
to and from the well without
complaint or much renection.
up from 2ӽlif as if
your tongue was a trapeze
catch the sonic breeze
from the tunnel of your throat
|is night, the moon swelled in
the water as she walked. She
was entranced by the renection.
say â â â
Her foot, this night, caught by a cedar
root, made her lurch and steady the
bucket, the water moon juddering.
begin on a single note
the way a mountain would
announce itself
mist lifting
a ridgeline
|e decrepit bamboo straps split, with
a sticky sigh, tired of holding the bucket
together for so many uncomplaining moons.
syllable of light
Chiyono, too, cracked open, seeing no water
in the bucket, seeing no moon in the water.
|en she wrote a poem.
|e poem held the water and its vanishing.
|e poem held the moon and its vanishing.
|e moon held the moon, the water the water.
Chiyono held the bamboo strips and gazed
from the empty socket of the bucket to the
full face of the moon. She held her sides
and laughed.
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Abra, is Spanish for open.
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principle of creation
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