Touching the Sacred

Touching the Sacred

Andrew Lansdown

Kyoto, Japan

i
Impressively priestly—
Japanese herons roosting
on the temple bridge.

ii
Temple fire-buckets—
mere bravado in the face
of autumn maples.

iii
Haunting hollowness—
music blown through bamboo by
priests of nothingness.

iv
The susuki plumes—
several Shinto priests waving
their white onusa.

v                                                               
At the fox shrine—
a skulk of yipping windbells
wagging their tails.

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Andrew Lansdown
Poet

Photography by Andrew Lansdown