a place for the time being (2017)

“Halfway up the left side of this photo, there is a black square. This is where I grew up, under these trees.  For a long time I had thought this photo might exist, then it fell from a letter I’d opened.
 A Place For The Time Being starts here."

For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.

Text: Eihei Dōgen Zenji, Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye),
Image: Fonds 55, Series 253, File 1, Aerial photographs of Thorncrest Village [1945]-[1949]
City of Toronto Archives. Used by permission.

Read A Place For the Time Being, winner 2017 Poetry Prize, What’s Your Story? Competition here