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Virginia Parkum

66 years old

Artist, writer, Buddhist priest in The Blue Mountain Lotus Society. Teach Zen arts workshops, lead meditation at Mohler Senior Center, Buddhist representative in interfaith activities, organize monthly Spirituality Book Group at Borders Harrisburg. First realization of the delayed horrors of war: When I was 9...the screaming nightmares our neighbor, a Korean War vet, had nightly, waking me up across a big yard and on the other side of the house that his faced. More wars, more screaming.


Bamiyan

On the Buddha's stone toe
     fragments of flowers and fingers


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