What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? Poems from 3-year Retreat Quotes

“Dripping charnel
 grounds of light -
I examine hope &
 fear -
blue-black body
 monster of
enlightenment -
call me Youthful
Lightning Bolt -
 tired I slump -
desire's already
 here - I don't
care -
my wrathful
rosary coiled
     snake
  on my cushion -
 I close my tired
  eyes -
 sleep has been
 troubled but
  my mother's
 cancer hasn't
 spread -
     still I
 am the Cemetary
King”
― Marc Olmsted, What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? Poems from 3-year Retreat

“Dream: I look for
 Lama Lodrö Kagyu
 teacher friend
 hearing
he's ill & I'm ill, too -
 I enter his room
and he says "I've
been trying to find
you - I wanted you
 to know illness
is just phenomena”
― Marc Olmsted , What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? Poems from 3-year Retreat