Fire Horse Dispatch
“Slow Culture”
Trust the deeper knowing that says: “Go slow.”
Honor the true season within yourself,
regardless of what the season is ‘out there.’
“Honey-Covered Hooks”
We have moved beyond the World of Red Dust.
We have entered the Bardo of Honey-Covered Hooks.
“Wherever We Go”
"Go light." -- Gary Snyder
— for Chofu
Hermits don’t leave the world.
Hermits turn inward
to meditate upon the world.
Sometimes they travel through the world —
the world of people and goings on
with all its genius and grimacing corruption.
Hermits try to bring a different energy to it all.
Nature.
Justice.
Conscience.
Encouragement.
Beauty.
Levity.
Balance.
Carefree-and-Easy Wandering.
Hermits don’t leave the world.
Hermits swing a wooden sword in the dark
and bathe in starlight solitude.
Hermits don’t leave the world.
We turn inward
to remind ourselves
that the Inner Mountain
travels with us
wherever we go.
“Full-Gallop”
journey: a day’s travel
journal: the daily entry.
Words on a page.
The Great Self
“connects the dots,”
tells of a map.
Not someone else’s map.
Your map.
The Map.
The spiral of time, memory, experience.
The arc of wounding, healing,
reclaiming one’s seat in the saddle after being thrown.
Welcome to the Year of the Galloping Fire.
© 2026 / Frank Inzan Owen / The Luminous Procession: Poems From Within and Beyond the World of Red Dust
image: Fire Horse, Andrey Soldatov
soundworld: “Rapt in Solitude” from the album SENTIENT BEING by Steve Roach
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Frank, your words often fall straight into the heart of me. Thank you for walking this world with such luminous light. I’m grateful to be a fellow wanderer.🌾