Zen Poets Society

My Montreal neighbourhood (the Plateau) will host the first ever Zen Poetry Festival, from March 16 to 18. From their site:

Poets, translators, story-tellers, scholars, musicians, and Zen monks will come together to explore how Zen embraces a paradoxical relationship with language – a relationship which has strongly influenced both Asian and North American poetry movements.

I guess this would mean, in part, Haiku. And so, I offer you this: