15th May, 2026
Barn Coordinator Claire is currently reading a collection of Buddhist poetry called Tomorrow's Moon.
This poem is one of two favourites she's found so far...
by Chandra Candiani
how I would like to know how to write
a letter to the woods
to a river or
to a quality of the sky
not a letter
of human regrets
or of indignant reproaches
but paper that blossoms
into gems drawing blood
risks of high tide
blind clear sky or clouds
without wind how I would like
a language of pine needles
of resin and floating
trout a cloudy
language obedient
to the most subtle changes.
This poem features in Tomorrow's Moon, a poetry collection by lay and monastic members of the Forest Sangha that's available for free download here (with the consent of the authors).