QUESTIONS
Are you a path
or are you a road
Are you the spark
or do you explode
Are you the wheel
or are you the carriage
Are you the temple
or are you the marriage
Are you the wind
or are you the wing
Are you the thought
or are you the thing
Are you the cause
or are you the motion
Are you the wave
or are you the ocean
Steven Fleet describes himself: “A transplant from the American Orient, I have a BFA from University of Arizona. I try to find my daily zen by making a living working with my hands. I use poetry to explore metaphysics, the nature of Self/God, the resonance of the natural world, Eastern thought, and the sacred place of Man in the cosmic order.”
You can download this poem in pdf version at http://www.writersatwork.com/poem11/june11.html.
Writers At Work 
MORE QUESTIONS
(in response to “Questions” by Steven Fleet)
Are you the floor
or are you the room
Are you a thread
or are you a loom
Are you the cover
or are you the table
Are you the scribbles
or are you the journal
Are you the flowers
or are you the reflection
Are you the dress
or are you the woman
Are you the window
or are you the eyes
Are you the painting
or are you the sky
Answers
I am wind and wing
a flame a breath a vapor
both thought and thing
I am the orchestra
in the high branches
the hermit thrush
and the sage thrasher
I am the ocean’s tongue
that swallows
and crashes
I am the twilight
at the end of the woods
the emptiness
at the edge of the world
Escape
I could be a curving shell,
With clear air and blue waters,
The ebb and flow of time,
A hollow, austere echo,
A percussion,
Or a swoosh of water,
The body having escaped –
To places unknown.
Because You Asked
I am a path
but not a road
I am the spark
that yearns to explode
If you’re the wheel
I’ll be your carriage
We’re both the temple
and the marriage
I am the wind
lifting your wing
I’ll think the thought
while you do the thing
I’m rarely the cause
but often the motion
We are both waves
in the same ocean
— Helen Yeoman, 7/19/11