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Philip Whalen (1923-2002)
Haiku for Mike

Bouquet of HUGE
nasturtium leaves
‘HOW can I support myself?’

cf. Interview with Michael McClure: All Moments Are One

Kerouac's friend, the Zen priest and poet Philip Whalen, disliked haikus, saying "Reading them is like being pecked to death."

MARK OTHER PLACE, Poems by Philip Whalen
http://www.bigbridge.org/Site/Text/Mark_O_P.html

DRIP PORTRAIT
San Francisco 1965
Poet and Zen Master, Philip Whalen emerged from his closet with a drip painted portrait of him by Michael McClure. It looks just like him. While I spent the day with him at his apartment, I was struck by the depth of his inner peace.
(Text and photograph by Larry Keenan. All Rights Reserved.)