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Isle of No-Beyond

Wat Khunaram Temple, Koh Samui Island

 

In glass of fashion
the Buddhist sits asana,
lotus posed. His shrouds,
ochre folds of fire, engulf
his emptiness.

dl mattila is completing the Master of Arts in Writing with a concentration in poetry at Johns Hopkins University. Her forthcoming and former publication credits include Blast Furnace, Foothill, the Maier Museum of Art 2011 Ekphrastic Poetry Page, Poets Against War (CA), Symmetry Pebbles (UK), The Applicant (Nepal), Verse Land, and The Washington Post.