From the recently released poetry book, Eightfold: Zen Poetry for Blindly Clasping Beings, here is the poem, "Craving, Part I" : Eightfold: Zen Poetry for Blindly Clasping Beings is a collection of sixty poems that reflect the author’s continual conversation with secular Buddhist thought on human nature, the struggles of existence, and the self-made and human-crafted challenges of modern life. These poems center on a layperson’s striving to find presence in the world, offerin