‘Seeking’ and Other Poems

‘Seeking’ and Other Poems

I met Lauren Ruth Wiener at a meeting of the Port Townsend Sangha in Port Townsend, Washington. It is an insight meditation group officially, but mostly a place where, in Joseph Goldstein’s phrase, all lineages meet in “One Dharma.” However, Lauren’s primary place of practice is a zendo that meets in a tiny concrete bunker overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca, an eerie remnant of military fortifications at what is now Fort Worden Historical St…