Excerpts from the Notebooks of Philip Whalen

Curated by Brian Unger

9 : IX : 67

I went to visit the Kamo Sume Ōkami
They were all at home
I offered prayers and salutations,
            Change of season wash ceremony
The white curtains waved benignly
            I keep thinking of Shelley's notebooks
                  many small birds
                         point east