Poetry. Latinx Studies. Environmental Studies. The Japanese tea ceremony is an attempt to impart meaning to that which would otherwise go unnoticed. After all, what is so different about serving, pouring, drinking tea, than the brushing of one's teeth No-thing. What gives significance to the serving of the tea is the ceremony itself--that is, the form. For in the tea ceremony, the form is the content. Now, in comparison to the Western poem, full of meaning, allusions, mythologies, history, etc. a haiku may just describe a scene in nature the landscape a river, a tree, a bird, and not much else. But that is so very much already, Rolando Prez seems to suggest in TEA CEREMONIES FOR WINTER. So very much. The objects of nature presented in a Basho haiku, for instance, simply are--they exist for themselves, says Prez. If they are 'sublime, ' they are not so for us, and this is what we must all learn, if we are to save the Earth from complete destruction--the result of our Western greed and r