My reading accords exactly with Mark's. This is the most formal poem I have seen by the most elusive, allusive, practitioner at the DE. I am untroubled by the pentameter (in fact, I am accustomed to far greater liberties from this poet!) And I welcome this discussion, tying as it does to the Mystical thread at Mastery. I suspect Rhina's response to this points to the gulf befween Zen and Taoism on the one hand, and the bride of Christ theme in the West typified by Herbert and the saint Alan so excruciatingly calls Wanda la Cruise!
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