Robert Lax's The Peacemaker's Handbook was first published by Pendo Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland in 2001. If you're interested, the text reproduced at this site is a digital copy of the original typescript/printout submitted for that publication. It differs from the published version in regards to the arrangement of some portions of the text, but you get a sense of what Lax's poetry looks like on a page.
Here is an excerpt from part III: Contemplation:
con
tem
pla
tion
is
watch
ing
---
what
hap
pens
if
you
watch
?
you
be
gin
to
see
---
(Incidentally, this excerpt was also quoted by Beth Cioffoletti almost exactly 9 years ago on her blog.)
If you enjoy this painting, you may also like to see a bunch of my paintings of citrus or my other posts about peace.
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