the sun’s true shape

john martone

samuddo / ocean2015

the sun’s true shapecopyright © 2015 john martone

johnmartone@gmail.com

the sun’s true shape

All sentient beings... should look at the setting sun. Sit in the proper posture, facing west. Clearly gaze at the sun, with mind firmly fixed on it; concentrate your sight and do not let it wander from the setting sun, which is like a drum suspended above the horizon. Having done so, you should then be able to visualize it clearly, whether your eyes are open or closed.

— The Contemplation Sutra

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all my bookswritten in exile a pine cone

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all of us naked in a pine cone

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the cosmological constanta pine cone

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year after year opening a pine cone

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pine cone before you were a symbol

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oh my pine conespace ship

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equinoctal — pine cones tumble onto pine stuff

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those dwellings you dream of a pine cone

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somewhere a neanderthal buried with pine cones

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pine cone dizzy from the wind in your ears

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form after

form —pine cone

pine

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fingernail tortoise shell

eyelid too pine cone scale

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this pine cone a lesson for vertebrates

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a pine cone the pentatonic & 12-tone scales

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pine cone an orphanage for the blind

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a pine conethe proof

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pine cones where you dig up that stump

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pine cone the sourceof hands

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a pine cone our final arrangements

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wittgensteinin silence a pine cone

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buddha takes seven steps — a pine cone

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pine cone a prism in his window

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bless me pine cone

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bob lax quietly does his yogaa pine cone

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cid corman

the cave dwellings of matera too a pine cone

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nothing else santōka & hōsai drunk on a pine cone

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enormous moon the stem of a pine cone

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every sail unfurledthe square-rigger a pine cone

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a pine cone my anchor

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paul klee’s last angel a pine cone

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the chorusa pine cone

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homeless now he turns to a pine cone

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dear theo this starry night’s a pine cone

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a pine cone illuminates lascaux

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spinning top —whetstone —pine cone

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mozart a pinecone the tonic

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autumn sky pine cones among the cumulus

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a pine coneleonardo’smeccanismo

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someone autistic spins in the rubblea pine cone

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a pine cone all of us waitingin brackets

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pine cone no otherpagoda

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pine conechanting in every direction

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apple pear & fig take shapein a pine cone

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the last bagworm a pine cone

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a pine cone the notes of that bird song

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now the pine cone is all around you

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all deer pathsconverge in a pine cone

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a pine cone your willendorf venus

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a pine cone in pompei ashes

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a pine cone the calendar

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a pine cone the endless cradle

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kenning a pine cone

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exhaustedtill you seea pine cone

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your dancersmatisse —a pine cone

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and you giacometti a pine cone stripped bare

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st francis’ robe & hood in a pinecone

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a pine cone the other side

the other side a pine cone

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pignoli — a miraculous book this pine cone

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a pine cone stripped bare that path under pines

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you tripped on the roots

& fell onto pine cones

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climb past pine conesto your perchin the pine

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this pine cone a refuge from shotguns in fall

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simple now —a cabbage white’s wingsrise from the pine cone

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pine cones —the carousel leaves town

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in the gazebo after alzheimer’sa pine cone

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his zinnias face up to the pine cones

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the sun’s true shape a pine cone