Maw Shein Win
Sensation Log

 

when you see it disappear

 

everything is phenomena : insect decline

 

no matter how pleasant

 

                                             things are        they do not last

 

 

forever no matter how sad

 

or painful it is : can hear my mother breathing

 

doesn't last forever

 

                              if it continues      it will

 

 

be difficult for us to live

 

our entire life : we stayed in the comedy house

 

knowing it will come

 

                              to an end          someday we

 

 

live in hope of the next

 

if it is clearly understood : jars of water from a caregiver

 

rather than vaguely

 

                             aware there is      no more suffering

 

 

only when deeply rooted

 

ignorance is clearly ignored : a missing account

 

will delusions cease to arise

 

 

                            because its      roots are gone

 

 

 

 
Found In Volume 54, No. 01
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Maw Shein Win
About the Author

Maw Shein Win’s most recent poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn, 2024). Her previous book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn), was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry and longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. Win’s previous collections include Invisible Gifts and two chapbooks, Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a new literary community.