Speechless

A special transmission outside the Scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;1

                                                Bodhidharma

No words

only stubby pink fingers

nails short and rounded

drawing me close

or

a warm slender arm

tossed like a wool blanket

over my sleeping form.

Two white scars

crawl the veins of her wrists

like petrified caterpillars

frustrated butterflies.

— Jon Wesick 

1. D.T Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series (New York, Grove Press, 1978). p. 20.