en hommage a Lew Welch (1926-71?).

Poet Lew Welch (along with Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder) attended Reed College in Oregon. In 1971, he walked into the foothills of the California Sierra Nevada, never to be seen again. His collected poems is entitled “Ring of Bone,” where “ring is what a bell does.”

“Suchness” (Tathata), in contrast to “emptiness” (sunyata).

Photo: Lew Welch