The Uncallused Hand 
Section IV: Zen


I went out following the scent of grasses 
and came back following the falling flowers. 
—Ch’ang Sha

The light of our true nature is something that is autonomous and natural, 
and it can't be stopped. It just bubbles up all the time and is all around us. 
Everywhere you look, that's it! Everything you look at, that's it!
—John Tarrant

...the swallows grew still and bats came out light as breath 
around the stranger by himself in the echoes
what did I have to do with anything I could remember 
all I did not know went on beginning around me.... 
—W.S. Merwin 



 
Section 4 of the book contains the following poems:
  1. Desert Rain
  2. Juniper Branch
  3. The Mechanic
  4. The Way of the Shower 
  5. After Singing 
  6. Desert Music
  7. I Lean and Loaf in White Mountain Day
  8. Wine
  9. Four Aces
  10. Empty Round Bowl
  11. On a Treeless High Mountain Ridge
  12. Under a Tree Looking Up
  13. Remembering Chuang Tzu in the California Desert
  14. Laundry 
  15. Leaf 
  16. A Day 
See sample here: