Seido Ray Ronci is a Rinzai Zen monk and the director of the Hokoku-An Zendo meditation center in Columbia, Missouri. He is the author of several chapbooks, as well as the collection The Skeleton of the Crow, winner of the 2009 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. Ronci is an associate professor at the University of Missouri, where he teaches critical theory and literature.

Cricket

by Seido Ray Ronci

In the bush outside my window
you say the same thing over and over
with equal enthusiasm. Whatever it is,
I know it’s the truth. No one could go on
so relentlessly if it wasn’t.

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