MOUNTAINS BECOME RIVERS: Urban Zazen & Wild Koans — Zen and poetry meet us on every path. Quiet moments follow us around, we only need to take pause to acknowledge them; just like so many other voices have recorded in the past. “We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains,” words that poet Li Bai wrote in his poem, Zazen on Ching- t’ing Mountain. This book is for readers of short poems and those that are in love with words. It is also for those readers that may be interested in Zen, nature, and matters of the spirit. To follow a path with heart also means a quiet contemplative space to cultivate these moments; within these poems you will find some of those moments recorded.