After Gary Snyder

After Gary Snyder 

      build your palace 
with a hole for a roof 

where incense can flow 
     to hide man smell 

man who crawls seashore 
      tumbles up like a crow 

          in the heat 
from this world     a circle 

ladders climbing its crater 
     like crazy ass magic 

like a pope's dispensations 
     like terra nullius