Poetry. "I drink my fill.// The clouds grip their purple,/ the mountains let go their thunder.// I sit and drink my fill.// How much I long to see/ through the man/ who sees through the moment.// I sit"-"Homage to Ryokan." Seido (Ray Ronci) is a monk of the Rinzai Zen sect and the director of Hokoku-An Zen Center in Columbia, Missouri. He has won an AWP "Intro" Award, an Academy of American Poets Award and the John H. Vreeland Award for Literary Composition. Saddlestapled chapbook.