Gabriel Shanks and
Kristi Conley-Brockie

Kristi Conley-Brockie
Inspiration piece

KSITIGARBHA
By Gabriel Shanks
Response

With your first footfall,
I become grass next to the road.
Astride the intersections.
Witness to each border
Here, before, in between and next.

When you step away,
I then dance among stray stones.
Carrying unconnected dead.
Fulfilling each wish
Until all the hells are emptied.

In all that exists,
I am the beautiful and awed.
Even trampled underfoot.
Even pressed into the earth
I spark in traveling light.

Behold.

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