Nantenbo's last calligraphy

Just before he vanished into nothingness,

After a long life of shouts and wonders and whispers,

the big mountain-like Nantenbo

picked up willows, bushes and women' s graceful shapes;

he held the dear memory of the pregnant moon,

the blazing sun

and evererything else

Just before he went throught the gateless gate

In dark ink, 

the whole sky 

and nothing

else,

and emptiness

wrote...