For 9/11, I’ve chosen my embroidery of Jizo, the Japanese god who helps to heal hearts and lives in times of darkness and grief.
Jizo personifies the Bodhisattva Vow to save all beings from suffering. He works especially to save the souls of children who have died before their parents. In Japan, stone Jizo statues are often adorned with children’s clothing and surrounded by offerings of flowers and toys, both as protection for a dead child and in gratitude for the saving of a child’s life.
Jizo is guardian of mothers, children, travelers, pilgrims, and–very appropriately to this day of remembering–firemen.
leaves rattle like bones
through bottomless clarity–
azure autumn sky
This is a reblog of my very first 9/11 post in 2014, adding the haiku from my post in 2017, which echoes always my memories of that morning here in NYC.
K. 
The sky that day was perfectly, beautifully azure, and then our souls rattled.
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Yes.
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Those firemen were heroes.
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Indeed they were.
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Their stories are so moving.
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There are only so many leaves and bones. We are in need of a guardian
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Jizo is a good one I think.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #5: K’s latest #haibun!
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Thanks Frank, I always appreciate it.
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My pleasure 😇
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