Mandarin Orange with Leaf



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


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(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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