Leaving Te Whetu

I buy myself
get-out-of-hospital earrings
silver ginkgo
rough hewn
reflective
I sit in the domain, to be
still-minded
is a luxury.

So many of us
wish we were dharma bums
divorced from
capitalist contracts
but reading
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I ask
does my mind
have any currency
beyond summaries, symbols
on paper.