CELEBRATING TANGRAM (JERRY REDDAN) ~

 

   Berkeley, California

RE-READING TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA ~

 

The year of parting

This moment of silence, plucking lice from each other's head to drop

into wet grass. The latitudes of intimacy.

Shadows under patches of early lavender in this summer breeze.

Reiterations of a solitary thought found in a walk. Blowing breath with

a breath, bamboo growth stalking the wind. Meeting wind with its

rustle, meeting wind with fingers trembling with utter foolishness.

Do not ask to stay when dust slides off feet poised for flight.

Bewildered between water and sky, only a slippery prostration.

Spaces circling amiably, lobe cupping lobe in a ceremony. Shrugging off

the present in an attempt to live in the present. Separating ear from ear.

As cotton padded feet meet parting curtains.

When you leave, I will grab that hour of parting.

Kiss our feet. Straighten your toes.

________________________________________

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

RECURRING GESTURES

Tangram 2000

such a beautifully balanced poem

MIKE O'CONNOR (TRANSLATOR) ~

Overnight At A Buddhist 
Mountain Temple





Massed peaks pierce

the cold-colored sky;

a view the zazen hall

faces.



Shooting stars pass

into sparse-branched trees;

the moon one way,

clouds another.



Few people come

to this mountaintop;

cranes do not flock

in the tall pines.



One Buddhist priest,

eighty years old,

has never heard

of the world affairs.





______________________
Chia Tao (779-843)
Colors of Daybreak and Dusk
Tangram
1995

AND NOW A WORD FROM JIM DODGE ~

H O W ' S     Y O U R     D A Y     G O I N G ?

For many years, well, decades, Jerry Reddan and I have traded publications from our presses —

it's what you do in the small press world if you want to amount to anything.

It's actually what you did before you even had a press.

You shared.

So staying with tradition, as Jerry shares with me a fine letterpress

piece, by his annual favorite Jim Dodge, I can't resist

but to share Jim's poem with you.

We count ourselves lucky.

Tangram
Berkeley | CA.

ROBERT SUND ~

R O B E R T     SU N D

another beauty

thanks to jerry redden of tangram

letterpress

two-color

full bodied poem

FINN WILCOX & BILL PORTER ~

Finn Wilcox

Hard To Believe

Tangram  2014

Finn Wilcox is an old friend to Longhouse — poet, treeplanter and fellow islander on the Olympic Peninsula with other mover & shakers like Bill Porter, Mike O' Connor, Tim McNulty, Norman Schaefer, Jim Tolpin, Karma Tenzing Wangchuk and others. Bill's book Road To Heaven: encounters with Chinese hermits (Counterpoint) is one to seek out and own, share, gift, beseech.

If you wish to dig deeper, the Longhouse catalog has many publications by these authors.

FOOL'S GOLD ~

NORMAN SCHAEFER

printed in limited edition by

Jerry Reddan

Tangram 2013

Berkeley