The Poetry of
Michael G. Khmelnitsky

back in japan
at the zenko
                 ji
photos of godhead
were forbidden

                         but
                         at the hawaii clones
                         of the temples &
                         the
                             over FED koi

ponds
they have given
                  up
       on the
preservation of

                         images  so I
                         snap one
                                     though
                         I do not take
                         the time

to tear off a
frond  or carve
my name on the
          bam
              boo