RoBG: Box of Rain – St. James Infirmary

INTRODUCTION
Raven Roshi said realization is a container. The tattered note found with this case said it like this: All experience is found in this box of rain you call your life.  A shard/paperweight from potter Lordsluk was embossed: The Cave of Ignorance is Very Cozy.

POINTER
Ikkyu says: One short pause between the leaky road here and the never-leaking Way there. If it rains, let it rain! If it storms, let it storm! A Crazy Cloud, out in the open. Blown about madly, as wild as they come!

CASE bard Hunter wrote:

Just a box of rain –
wind and water –
Sun and shower –
Wind and rain –
I don’t know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare

NOTES
How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?
Yun Men said, “Body exposed in the golden wind.”

COMMENTARY
In After Ikkyu, Harrison scrawled this spanking:

Poor little blind boy, lost in the storm
where should he go to be without harm?
For starters, the dickhead should get a life.
Once I had a moment of absolute balance
while dancing with my sick infant daughter
to Merle Haggard. The blind boy died in the storm
with fresh frozen laughter hot on his lips.

 

VERSE

 

 

COMMENTARY

 

ADDED SAYING from bard Hunter: CASE

“The weather down here so fine”
Just then the wind came squalling through the door, but who can the weather command?
-BLACK PETER

Your rain falls like crazy fingers
Peals of fragile thunder keeping time

Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow
Tapping at the window touch your hair
-CRAZY FINGERS

Ripple in still water
when there is no pebble tossed
nor wind to blow
-RIPPLE

 

ADDED SAYING: VERSE