turn the light

' learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.'

fukenzazengi / eihei dogen

light

does it enter does go out

does it ever leave the dark

take the light and turn it inward

we heard the master say

moving inward the outer

moving outward the inner

is this movement

is movement another name we

give to what we can not grasp

inscrutable for incessable

turning it in is what returns you

to emergence of light where

inward and outward inflow

this is the color of time

that horizon a river

gone gone its shores

our river bed of night

soft spoken stars

immersed

in glowing waters

their long murmur

reverberations of

silence

their rippling

moon's seasons

and all that is

your self

saint-jean-cap-ferrat, côte d'azur