Rachael Petersen
Rachael Petersen lives in Massachusetts with her many plants and her cattle dog, Līlā, named after the Sanskrit concept of divine play. She is a writer and PhD student in Germanic languages and literature at Harvard University. (rachaelnpetersen.com)
Tassajara
The abbot declared your beloved pit bull had Buddha nature, / so you carried her sixty muscled pounds to the mountain // monastery, where we sat sesshin and she ate wool socks, / a box of chocolates, and eight pages of Robert Aitken.
January 2026Backyard Mercy
A fruit fly fell in my fine crystal glass / half full of five-dollar wine. / Annoyed, I almost flung the final sips / behind a rosebush.
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