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Dear Master Kosen,

After the sesshin of Barcelona last april, I did some poems (in catalán, my mother tongue). Let me dedicate one of them to you. (translation follows)

A hug.
Xavier.

Si m'assec em moc
Com els roures quan fullegen:
Les branques verdegen
I tot creix a poc a poc;
Fins i tot hi alena el roc.


If I sit I move
As the oaks when they turn their leaves:
Branches get greenes
And everything slowly grows;
Even the rock breathes

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