Zen Buddhism, In Flanders Fields, Mistresses, and Sherwood Anderson

R A L P H

The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

Volume X, Number 4 --- Winter, 1994 - 1995

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BRIEF REVIEWSPacifists, Mexico, Ducks (and Geese),
Psychotherapists, Underground Caves, Comondú, and
How To Fix The Food (When You've Burned It)

MORE BRIEF REVIEWSRajneesh, Health Food, Permanent New Yorkers, Kundalini,
Mystics, The Florida Keys (and cockroaches as big as turtles)

ARTICLES If I knew the way, I would take you Home. "I was very young the first time I died."

READINGSIn Flanders FieldsBy Leon Wolff"When one officer was instructed to consolidate his advance position,
he wrote back, It is impossible to consolidate porridge."
The Eating of Time By Maha Ghosananda
"Feeling has six mouths --- the eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body, and mind."

Ambivalent ZenBy Michael Shainberg"We've got this idea of something trapped that we've got to set free.
Like there's a bird in your hand..."
The Book of the GrotesqueBy Sherwood Anderson"Some were amusing, some almost beautiful, and one,
a woman all drawn out of shape, hurt the old man by her grotesqueness."

POETRYTo A Former Mistress, Now Dead "At times I catch myself making that loose mouth
old people make, as if one's teeth don't fit, without being false.
You're well out of it"

litany "Tom, can we make a baby together? I want to be a big pregnant woman with a
loved face and give you a squalling red daughter.
no, but i will come inside you and you will be my daughter"

Sing Ho! to the New Keyboard
"Now is the time (Sing ho!) now is
The time, they say, for love, my love.
Now is the time for all good
Men of love to come (Love-to-come!)
To the aid of their partly."
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