AFTER ONE MONTH DAKINI RETREAT

Marc Olmsted

Dakini - Tibetan female wisdom
deity - literally skydancer

Through the
white sky
home -
Suzi Kaplan
writer/Buddhist/
therapist-to-be
meets me at
the gate -
down the
red neon
corridor
to the
parking lot
w/flaming
haired
dakini Suzi, nose
ring black
rubber cleavage
dress
and fishnets
"There is no
secular world"
said Zen Master
Dogen -
secluded
top floor
under
night sky
she has
parked my
black 64
Plymouth
Valiant
so we
can fuck
in the
backseat

- no secular
world
on the
freeway
blazing
its red hair
its hair of
stars home
no secular
world
Suzi Dakini
driving
my car
my fatigue
of stars
of yellow
lights of
the coliseum
Candlestick
Park
no secular
world
roaring
wind of
the
gold lit Bay
Bridge bright
tunnel
2nd tier
below into
Berkeley
a red flare
still burning
from the
past of
an accident
now greeting
me
to saxophones
on the tape
player
looking over
the
city night
tired
ancient
ready