This pen-and-ink illustration, suggestive of a Japanese monastic precinct, was composed through text-guided image synthesis following human instruction. It is not based on a photograph of an actual place. It is an example of my using new drawing tools. I’m still thinking through how such images might sit on a page alongside Zava Damdin Rinpoche’s beautiful poetry. With this in mind, please receive the illustration not as a representation of the poem as a whole, but as a companion image drawn from one of its lines.C. Pleteshner, 25 June 2026.

This pen-and-ink illustration, suggestive of a Japanese monastic precinct, was composed through text-guided image synthesis following human instruction. It is not based on a photograph of an actual place. It is an example of my using new drawing tools. I'm still thinking through how such images might sit on a page alongside Zava Damdin Rinpoche’s beautiful poetry. With this in mind, please receive the illustration not as a representation of the poem as a whole, but as a companion image drawn from one of its lines.C. Pleteshner, 25 June 2026.

This pen-and-ink illustration, suggestive of a Japanese monastic precinct, was composed through text-guided image synthesis following human instruction. It is not based on a photograph of an actual place. It is an example of my using new drawing tools. I’m still thinking through how such images might sit on a page alongside Zava Damdin Rinpoche’s beautiful poetry. With this in mind, please receive the illustration not as a representation of the poem as a whole, but as a companion image drawn from one of its lines.C. Pleteshner, 25 June 2026.

This pen-and-ink illustration, suggestive of a Japanese monastic precinct, was composed through text-guided image synthesis following human instruction. It is not based on a photograph of an actual place. It is an example of my using new drawing tools. I’m still thinking through how such images might sit on a page alongside Zava Damdin Rinpoche’s beautiful poetry. With this in mind, please receive the illustration not as a representation of the poem as a whole, but as a companion image drawn from one of its lines.C. Pleteshner, 25 June 2026.