In Place 37

 37

Bison have moved south
across the snow to accept
farmers' delivered hay;
no geese fly, no starlings chat





The hut’s large windows permit close observation of the life cycles of one’s plant and animal neighbors. One comes to realize there is no separation.

If we think, “I am here and the mountain is over there,” that is a dualistic way of observing things.
--Shunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness 28.