Brian F Taylor

Blindness Kindness Brian F Taylor

The Chinese character, Tao, can be deciphered as a small boat with a single oar, a diving rod and an eye. These poems are bubbles from its wake.

"Oh Life, thou nothing's younger brother,
So like, one might mistake Thee for the Other."

FOR MOTHER AND CHILD
Why wake him? You woke to nothing,
do you think he won't?
Your hand will guide him firmly and away,
your lips will teach him the nonsense he will say,
your sins on him every day.

At best,
he'll pass the test
you failed,
but where you won
will be undone...