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“The Strong Are Without Ambition” – Lao Tzu

Poet David Allan Evans writes about a water buffalo in "The Strong Are Without Ambition"

By David Allan Evans

Something was moving in China
on a mountain road, and I stopped
the van and got out to snap
pictures of it lumbering my way,
a water buffalo.

I kneeled like a bullfighter
as he swayingly came—saw
the splayed, shaggy hooves,
the muddy eyes, the wide
bend of horns that between them
swaying held up the whole
mountain’s silence.
I saw the antique power
in thighs moving centuries
at the same pace on roads,
in swamps, or knee-keep
sucking mud of rice paddies;
the power in dark shoulders—
the quietness in strength
that does not have to insist,
but is.

I watched him until, veering
from the road he stepped over the
edge beneath the stick of his
driver and was gone.

Buy David Allan Evans’ Latest Book

David Allan Evans' latest book is the Carnival, the Life.

THE CARNIVAL, THE LIFE

David Allan Evans‘ vision is virtually limitless. Born of the great expanse of South Dakota and touching locales as distant as Mexico, China and the Isle of Man, Evans’ expression of that vision is as subtle as it is encompassing. THE CARNIVAL, THE LIFE (Settlement House Books, 2013) is a meditation on a life well lived.

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