Lucien Stryk
Juggler
Someone with skill juggles
three worlds together,
rainbow, miraculous arc.
Something compels a fourth,
widening the circle. Five,
six float in the charged
steep of his mind: soon
others whirl his wrist.
Seven, eight -- now he’s on
his toes, up, up, rising
with the music of the
spheres. Still unsatisfied,
risks the lot, down on his
knees. He dare not drop one.
Our lives depend on it.
Lucien Stryk teaches Oriental Literature and poetry at Northern Illinois University, and has been the recipient of numerous grants & awards for his translations, particularly those of Japanese Zen poetry. His edition of the Penguin Book of Zen Poetry will appear in paperback in 1981. The most recent collections of his own work are SELECTED POEMS (Swallow Press, Chicago), and THE DUCKPOND (Omphalos Press, London).
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