Cold Winter Thoughts

I see stones

I see temples

I see the green valley

Lying right ahead

I see Thailand

In the blue distance


The monks join me

Flashing their orange outfits

In a place

Where everything fits


I chop down the scene

With the blade of my mind

Pick up the bits

And build a raft

To float, float, float

Downstream going

My whole being there throwing

Into the land

With ribbons of euphoria


I stand on the stone

Pretend to be a human temple

The spider crawls

I don’t see it

Crawls on me, the human temple

Standing still and gentle

He bites me

I’m dead

I wake up again

On a raft

Which tells me

I should make a new draft

For this new life’s craft