Peter C Venable has written both free and metric verse for more than 50 years. His work has been published in journals such as American Vedantist, Vineyards, The Christian Communicator, Third Wednesday, and The Merton Seasonal, and he has written 3 unpublished chapbooks. Peter works as an almost retired addiction and mental health counselor and is graced with a happy marriage, a daughter and a son-in-law, and Yeshua.

Zen Nonsense
By Peter C Venable

Here and now, how brief we visit:
For there and then is where we lodge.
Memory and daydreams
From mind’s projector veil our view.

The child swings and swings and swings,
Pure motion. Then stops, gazes at an anthill,
Pure rest.

Zen whispers:

No matter.

Never mind.