Mosquito Meditations

Quadrant, March, 2008 by Andrew Lansdown

MOSQUITO MEDITATIONS

   1. Koan

   The mosquito whines
   at me once more. Very well,
   I will instruct you,
   small one. Come, meditate on
   the sound of one hand slapping.

   2. Altered State

   Having heard it once
   the mosquito's in no state
   to hear it once more:
   The answer to the famed koan
   concerning one hand clapping.