A Wonderful World

Andrew Lansdown

Honen-in Temple, Kyoto

It’s surprising
as well as wonderful, this
unfolding world:
Here in a graveyard in Kyoto,
two lines of a song by Satchmo.

What manner of man
must he have been, this man who’s
got on his gravestone
Louis Armstrong’s lovely words,
‘Yes, I think to myself, what …’?

Andrew Lansdown
Poet & Author

Photography by Julius Torten

Ekstasis Magazine