italian chapbook

My new chapbook of poems, Buddhidharmacaribu, published in Italian and English by Lato Selvatico Libraria, Portiolo, Italia, Luglio 2012

Rootdrinker Reading

photo by obeeduid


Rootdrinker

sacred spring this
Norman's Kill to
the Hudson
fishswimming
from The Escarpment down
(water falls)
to Black Creek Marsh
the Green Mountains
in the blue beyond we
drink all of it
come away healed


Gary Lawless
Pine Hollow Arboretum
June 16, 2012

Caribouddhism

artwork by Stephen Petroff


Caribouddhidharma

Bodhidharma came from the West
riding on the back of a caribou.
He brought me sardines
packed in the ice of glaciers.
He told me that bears are gods,
that birds are songs.
He told me that plants
are great teachers.
He told me to listen to granite.
He left behind relics,
bones and bits of fur,
here in my heart.


Gary Lawless

postcard from Barcelona

Barcelona, from Montjuic
Photo by Beth Leonard

from the plaza to the hill,
cathedral to the shore,
ramblas, diagonal,
sagrada familia to
montjuic, saturday
morning parrots in the
sun, miro's
constellations, capa's
photos of the war
the graves of Durruti and all these
many more Catalunya
in a warm breeze and down
down to Barceloneta,
to the sea