tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48212438380312437092024-03-16T11:53:04.693-07:00Robert Frost's BanjoA miscellany like Grandma’s attic in Taunton, MA or Mission Street's Thrift Town in San Francisco or a Council, ID yard sale in cloudy mid April or a celestial roadmap no one folded—you take your pick.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2046125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-48140023771260804702018-01-12T04:00:00.000-08:002018-01-12T04:00:18.794-08:00Autumn Daybreak, Walking through a Deserted Village in South Valley<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">my heart’s desires long
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Based on Liu Zongyuan:</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> 秋曉行南谷經荒村</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Qiū Xiăo Xíng Nán Gŭ Jīng
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extinct in the wild, though a small feral population does currently exist in
China, composed of a herd that escaped a zoo. Otherwise, the milu only exist in
zoos. Dating back to prehistorical times, milu ranged across all of China,
though the population shrank steadily during historical times. The milu are
sometimes called “sibuxiang” (Chinese: 四不像; pinyin: sì bú xiàng), which could
be translated as “four not alike”; they are variously described as having
"the hooves of a cow but not a cow, the neck of a camel but not a camel,
antlers of a deer but not a deer, the tail of a donkey but not a donkey";
"the nose of a cow but not a cow, the antlers of a deer but not a deer,
the body of a donkey but not a donkey, tail of a horse but not a horse";
"the tail of a donkey, the head of a horse, the hoofs of a cow, the
antlers of a deer"; "the neck of a camel, the hoofs of a cow, the
tail of a donkey, the antlers of a deer"; "the antlers of a deer, the
head of a horse and the body of a cow".</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Snow Mountains”: Guo
Xi. 11<sup>th</sup> Century. Public domain.</span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-31344262130354973012018-01-11T11:30:00.000-08:002018-01-11T11:30:00.191-08:00After Lunch<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">waking, it’s time for two
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">those who grieve hate the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">those knowing neither
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">bear life, long or short,
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">based on Bai Juyi:</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> 食後</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Excerpts from Bai
Juyi's "Biography of a Master of Drunken Poetry": calligraphy by
Fujiwara no Yukinari(972 – 1028); detached section of a handscroll mounted as a
hanging scroll; ink on paper – early 11<sup>th</sup> century.</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-85754565701237599262018-01-09T08:08:00.000-08:002018-01-10T09:56:38.064-08:00Moon Poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">perched on the highest
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">orphan moon shines on the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-47433714283488403922018-01-03T14:26:00.000-08:002018-01-10T09:56:17.506-08:00On The Highest Tower In White Emperor Castle<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">based on Du Fu:</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> 白帝城最高樓</span></div>
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Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en]</span></i></div>
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would be more appropriate for the Mid Autumn Festival, Zhōngqiū Jié, which is
the full moon closest to the Autumn Equinox. But rather wait until next
September, I’m posting them now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">We have no way of knowing
whether Li Shangyin intended these poems as a complementary set or as distinct
& individual compositions. James JY Liu in his seminal work on the poet,
<i>The Poetry of Li Shang-yin: Ninth-Century Baroque Chinese Poet</i>, does place the
poems together & discuss them as a group. Poet David Young also places the
poems together under the title “Three for the Goddess of the Moon” in his <i>Five T'ang Poets</i>. Since Young
is a poet & not a Sinologist, I assume in grouping the poems together he is
following Liu either directly or at second or third hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">For more information on
the Chang’e myth, see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e">Wikipedia page</a>. Briefly, Chang’e stole the elixir of
immortality & flew to the moon, where she lives with a rabbit (or hare) who
pounds herbs into the elixir of immortality with a mortar & pestle & a
three-legged toad. There is also a cassia tree on the moon in this myth.
Chang’e is the “White Lady” mentioned in the third poem (素娥, sù é), while the
Blue Maiden (青女, qīng nŭ) is Qing Nu, the Goddess of Frost & Winter.</span></div>
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all the Chinese translations, grateful acknowledgment is due to Sheila
Graham-Smith, who did a marvelous job of elucidating the first line of the
first poem.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Chang'e flees to the
moon: from Yoshitoshi’s 100 Aspects of the Moon. (1885-1892)</span></i></div>
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without voice, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">while dark pines rejoice,
sensing springtime—</span></div>
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there’s sighing too:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">this glory of a brief day,
what’s it worth</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>translation </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>© Jack Hayes 2017</i></span></span> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">based on Li Bai: </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">拟古</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">nĭ gŭ</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">This poem has been titled
“Old Dust” in other English translations, though that isn’t the meaning of the
characters passed down in Chinese tradition as a title: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">拟古. It’s worth noting
in this context that Li Bai has a series of fifty poems titled古風 (gŭ fēng),
which might be translated as “Antiquity”, or “Ancient Airs” or “After the
Classics” or some similar phrase. Victor Mair has translated the whole sequence
in his excellent <i>Four Introspective Poets</i>, & Paula Varsano has
translated a number of the poems in her study, <i>Tracking the Banished
Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception</i>. My sense is that
Li Bai in this poem is also deliberately looking back to his classical
predecessors. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sunset at Mt Tai in Shandong province, China, January 2005. Photo by
Wiki Commons user <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise">Pfctdayelise</a>, who makes the image
available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">2.0Generic</a> & <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/deed.en">1.0 Generic</a> licenses.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">in
the fourth watch the mountains spew up the moon,</span></div>
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night’s remains, waters illuminate the tower—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">in
essence, a dusty case revealing a mirror,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">curtains
raising themselves in gusts to the topmost hook—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">the
Rabbit ought to ponder my crane-white hair,</span></div>
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the Toad only longs for my sable coat—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">I
mull over the Widow Lady Chang-E,</span></div>
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she bears the chill of the ninth month </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>translation </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>© Jack Hayes 2017</i></span></span> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">based on Du Fu: </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">月</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Chang-E
is the Moon Goddess, & her companions are the Jade Rabbit (or Hare), who
pounds herbs into the elixir of immortality, as well as a Toad, often depicted
with three legs. Chang-E pilfered the herbs of immortality from her husband,
the mythical archer Yi, & flew to the moon. In poetry, she is often a
figure for loneliness. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Tang dynasty (618-906) bronze mirror with moon goddess and rabbit
design. Photo by Wiki user Hiart [link provided on Common is empty], who
publishes it under the following license: This file is made available under the
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en">Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication</a>.</span></i></div>
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milled to a shape</span></div>
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dynamics,</span></div>
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parked on the bookshelf</span></div>
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as we all do in earth’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">& the
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on the horizon between Yachats &</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Ise Jingu
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Jack Hayes</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the
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it on your back, you shrink into it, you</span></div>
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is gray & the chestnut burrs drop at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">random
onto the driveway & the blue car—</span></div>
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every book a blue tandem bike waits parked</span></div>
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its kickstand in the basement for that one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">spin
through the park on a blue & yellow June</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">afternoon;
in every book a French press</span></div>
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half full on the counter; the sun breaks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">through
clouds to shine on the paperbark maple</span></div>
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to the backyard swing—you are the perfect</span></div>
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sleeping until the alarm clock chimes,</span></div>
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downstairs as if turning the pages </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Jack Hayes</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">© 2017</span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-10139986914411648422017-11-22T04:00:00.000-08:002017-11-22T04:00:23.676-08:00Dao De Jing 19<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Dao De Jing 19</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Reject sagacity, abandon
expertise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">& the people will
benefit a hundred times over;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">reject altruism, abandon
morality,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">and the people will return
to benevolence;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">reject ingenuity, abandon
profit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">& thieves will no
longer steal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But these three are
superficial & not in themselves sufficient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">manifest simplicity,
embrace modesty,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">diminish self-interest,
curtail desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Laozi, 道德經</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Translation by John
Hayes</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">The translation is is
licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Unlike with my original
poetry & poetry translations, I don’t asset a copyright claim on my
translation of the <i>Dao De Jing</i>. It may be freely used under the terms of
the Creative Commons license.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Xuan Yuan Inquires of
the Dao”, scroll, color on silk, 32 x 152 cm. Xuan Yuan is the given name of
the Yellow Emperor. This painting is based on the story that the Yellow Emperor
went out to the Kongtong Mountains to meet with the famous Daoist sage
Guangchengzi. Ming Dynasty.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">birds
fly off into the infinite;</span></div>
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the mountain range autumn color returns—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">walking
up, walking down along Huazi ridge:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">do
grief & regret ever reach an end</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Translation by Jack Hayes © 2017</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">based on Wang Wei: </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">華子 岡</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">huá
zĭ gāng </span></div>
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</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Landscape
attributed to Southern Song artist, Yamato Bunkan, Nara, Japan.</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-59678715986359951252017-11-17T08:37:00.000-08:002017-11-17T09:44:20.380-08:00Sent North on a Rainy Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype";">you ask the
date of my return: there’s no date;</span></div>
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mountains ponds swell with autumn rain—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype";">when may we
again trim wicks by the west window,</span></div>
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together about Ba mountain night rain</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">based on Li Shangyin: </span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">夜雨寄北</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype";">“Cloudy
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-31137980467371847742017-11-08T08:15:00.000-08:002017-11-08T08:15:45.624-08:00Taking Down A Trellis<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Taking Down A
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">the
bound sticks already wither & fall;</span></div>
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gourd’s leaves turn wilted & sparse—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">since
its white flowers managed to bear fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">how
can green vines not accept this dismantling—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">autumn
insects’ voices haven’t gone away;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">sparrows
at dusk: what can they be thinking—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">in
the cold, things now fall to waste;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">human
life also has its beginnings</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">based on Du Fu: </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">除架</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">chú jià</span></div>
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Wuan. 13<sup>th</sup> Century; ink & colors on paper scroll.</span></i></div>
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groves cut off mountain dawn, bamboo hides the walls,</span></div>
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hubbub fades in grass by the small pond—</span></div>
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birds appear reeling & reeling again through the sky,</span></div>
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shines vermilion, its delicate scent on the water—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">past
the cottages,</span></div>
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the ancient city,</span></div>
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stroll quietly on goosefoot cane, turning to the oblique light—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">thanks
to yesterday’s midnight rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I
get another cool day in this drifting life</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Translation by Jack Hayes</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">© 2017</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">based on Su Shi:</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> 鷓鴣天</span></div>
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thanks as always to Sheila Graham-Smith for her helpful suggestions.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">1. new moon</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">traffic
looks stalled under the Fremont Bridge arch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">but
it’s far off through rain & the train window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">black
river’s a one-way mirror for the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">where
the moon must float, absorbing gray moisture</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">2. waxing crescent</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
sky’s undecided--half hour after</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">blue,
half hour before black--but the train might</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">arrive
on schedule under gold station lights:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
crescent’s blurred above angled power lines</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">3. half moon</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">cattails
& vetch thrive at the parking lot’s edge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">where
this late afternoon blends shadow & sun—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
yellow clapboard walls align slanted light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">but
not slanted light off the divided moon</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">4. waxing gibbous</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">streetlight
photons cut across the avenue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">glimmer
between the birch leaves, an electric</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">nest;
here come the headlights, flying two by two:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">moon’s
belly swells ripe in an unpeopled sky</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">5. full moon </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
taijitu sign glows black & white against</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">a
stucco building; people are driving home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">lights
approaching from all dimensions; how can</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">this
moon be both a mirror & an orphan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Jack Hayes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">© 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This completes the
yearlong cycle of moon quatrains, & also officially signals the completion
of the <i>Sunflower Sky</i> manuscript & <i>101 Portland Moons</i>. Stay
tuned for publication information.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">(8 quatrains)</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">1. new moon</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
clothesline shadow sharpens on white clapboards:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
wooden pins & dish towels float static </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">between
lilac’s silhouette & the window:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">sun
crescent at the moon’s invisible edge</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">2. waxing crescent</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">crickets
babble like invisible water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">from
all directions at once; white headlights flow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">east-west,
almost steady; afloat in heaven’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">black
river: the crescent moon, luminous leaf</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">3. half moon</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
smears where plums dropped to the concrete grow darker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">where
black plum leaves screen the streetlights; white roses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">flank
the dim sidewalk, but it’s clear they’ve gone past—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">half
moon in nameless purple sky: gaze elsewhere</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">4. waxing gibbous</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">kitchen
light walks through the backdoor screen, stretches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">out
on the swing chair a low ginkgo bough holds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">up—nothing
else is stirring, not even that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">moon
half hidden in the ginkgo’s higher limbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> </span>
</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">5. full moon </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">that
sconce light on the sky blue wall shines inside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
picture window along with the porch light</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">across
the avenue; in the backyard the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">moon
burns incandescent yellow by itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">6. waning gibbous </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">electric
crimson roses climb the stop sign,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">but
the blooms don’t seem to listen; sunflowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">bask
in light off clapboards: beside a building</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">made
of windows, the waning moon hangs heavy</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">7. last quarter</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">clouds
at the horizon are such as they are,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">far
west of the red-lettered gas station sign—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">doubtful
we’ll comprehend them in this lifetime—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
half moon’s vanishing in more than one sense</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">8. waning crescent</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">that
flash of a small white plane overhead; I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">mistook
it for the moon, but it turns north—two</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">cabbage
whites thread through a garden that’s gone past—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">this
crescent’s a paler cloud, off by itself</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Jack Hayes</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">© 2017</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Welcome to another edition
of the Sunday music series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We continue our September
feature on composer Toru Takemitsu with a version of his 1974 piece “Gitimalya”
(sub-titled “A Bouquet of Songs”). “Gitimalya” is scored for marimba & orchestra;
here the marimba is played by Luigi Gaggero, with the accompaniment of the
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">There’s a lovely &
brief write up about this composition at <i>Allmusic</i>, which can be found at
<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/composition/gitimalya-for-marimba-orchestra-mc0002371415">this link</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hope you enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddoTFCugUmk" width="560"></iframe> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Image links to its source
on Wiki Commons:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Stage for the
presentation of the album "A Bonsai Garden" by Brian Banks, Musical
Wednesdays program within the week.” Photo by Wiki user Fraguando (link
provided is empty), who makes it available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">(Eastbank Esplanade: 9/2/17)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">green
river like evening air stretching its</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">hands
between the maples beside a distant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">river—mother
would recognize it in oils, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">a
canvas I could picture but didn’t paint—</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">but
it’s afternoon & water has little </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">to
do with this solid state blue sky; liquid</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">fragments
stitched with boat wakes & memories &</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">glimpses
in the direction this current flows</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">◦</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
pigeons & starlings feeding on bread crumbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">strewn
by park benches are skittish in the heat—</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
scrub jay perched on the galvanized railing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">turns
& turns again, darts to the madrona’s</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">foliage—a
pair of Canada geese on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">a
sinking log below the bramble cascade</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">stretch
wings, preen in unison; under Burnside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">bridge
other geese move on indigo shadows</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">◦</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I’m
not young; the motorboat churns downriver,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">bow
lifted; a paddleboat moseys past those</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">floating
geese, but the geese don’t stir; you’re standing</span></div>
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by the railing above green green flow:</span></div>
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passing infinite for those few minutes</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Jack Hayes</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We return with music for
your Sunday, & continue with our September feature on composer Toru
Takemitsu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Today’s selection is the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of Takemitsu’s 1977 composition, “A
Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden”. Gene Tyranny, writing for the
<i><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/composition/a-flock-descends-into-the-pentagonal-garden-for-orchestra-mc0002372010">Allmusic</a></i> site,
described the composer’s inspiration as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This beautifully titled
composition for orchestra was inspired by a dream in which the composer saw a
flock of white birds, led by a single black bird swirling around and then
descending into a pentagonal or star-shaped garden. The garden, however, turned
out to be the star on the back of artist Marcel Duchamp's head in the famous
photograph by Man Ray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I’d encourage you to read
the entire <i>Allmusic</i> entry on “A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden”,
which can be found at the link given above, as well as the essay on the piece
at <a href="https://rhagye.com/2013/11/03/analysis-of-takemitsus-a-flock-descends-into-the-pentagonal-garden/">this link</a>. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“A painting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of birds and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>flowers”: Kitayama Kangan(1767 - 1801). Circa 1800.</span></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And don’t tell me anything</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And don’t tell me
anything,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">that someone can kill
perfectly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">since, sweating ink,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">someone does all he can,
don’t tell me…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We’ll come back,
gentlemen, to see ourselves with apples,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the creature will pass by
late,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Aristotle’s expression
armed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">with grand wooden hearts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">and that of Heraclitus
grafted onto that of Marx,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">that of the gentle pealing
roughly…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It’s what my throat told
me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">someone can kill
perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Gentlemen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">kind sirs, we’ll come back
without parcels;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">until then I demand, will
demand of my frailty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">the day’s stress, which,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">as I see, was already
waiting for me on my bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And I ask my hat for
memory’s ill-fated analogy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">because sometimes I assume
my immense mournfulness with success,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">because sometimes I drown
in my neighbor’s voice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">and endure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">numbering the years on
kernels of corn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">brushing off my clothes to
the a dead man’s tune,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">or sitting drunk in my
coffin…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">César Vallejo, “Y no me
digan nada”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Translation by Jack
Hayes</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">© 2017</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Héraclite”
(“Heraclitus”): Johannes Moreelse; circa 1630.</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-87859266568316690112017-09-06T04:00:00.000-07:002017-09-06T04:00:04.649-07:00Two Octets from Late August<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Amazing Grace Octet</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">(8/23/17)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">this
morning's overcast has wound up shredded;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">from
the next block a hammer’s thud, a nail gun’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">staccato
echo an invisible world—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
engine of a parked car turns over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">but
it doesn't seem to catch the attention</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">of
that lonesome crow perched on the wire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">as
usual—twin sunflowers try to find</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">their
place amidst unmade clouds—<i>I once was lost</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">◦<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>◦<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>◦</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The Time Octet</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">(8/24/17)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
future exists already but like so</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">many
other places I haven't been there—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">autumn
comes to call on the avenue this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">noon;
one red petunia petal falls from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the
balcony, pretending to be a leaf;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">outside
the tea shop a woman pulls on her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">sweater;
the bus comes, either late or early:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">my
shadow moves ahead of me, to the side</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Jack Hayes</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">© 2017</span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-36962739180427178602017-09-05T11:58:00.000-07:002017-09-05T11:58:43.923-07:00Dao De Jing 18<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">When the Great Way was
abandoned, humaneness & morality became abundant; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Wit & cleverness
emerged, & hypocrisy abounded;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">When harmony no longer
held through the six close kinships*, filial sons grew abundant;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">When the nation was
benighted with disorder, loyal ministers grew plentiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Laozi, 道德經</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Translation by John
Hayes</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">The translation is is
licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Unlike with my original
poetry & poetry translations, I don’t asset a copyright claim on my
translation of the <i>Dao De Jing</i>. It may be freely used under the terms of
the Creative Commons license.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">* <a href="https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=%E5%85%AD%E8%A6%AA">六親</a> [liù qīn] </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">six close relatives,
namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger
brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">“Bagua diagram by Zhao
Huiqian ("River Chart spontaneously [generated] by Heaven and Earth" 圖河.自地天).
This image may in fact be a reproduction of the diagram by Hu Wei in his Yitu
mingbian (‘Clarification of the diagrams in the book of changes’), dated 1706.”
circa 1370; 1706. Public domain.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-31847040092961297372017-09-03T04:00:00.000-07:002017-09-03T04:00:26.970-07:00Eclipse (For Biwa And Shakuhachi)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Welcome back to the Sunday
music feature. In September we’ll be featuring the music of Toru Takemitsu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Takemitsu">Takemitsu</a> is a major composer & a few
blog posts over the course of a month can serve only as the most cursory
introduction & exploration of his music. I’d strongly encourage those who
are interested in what they hear to seek out more information at the links
given with each post & also to seek out more of Takemitsu’s music, which is
readily available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We begin the series with
Takemitsu’s 1966 composition, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(Takemitsu)">Eclipse</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">”</span>. This is scored for
traditional Japanese instruments, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi">shakuhachi</a>
& the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biwa">biwa</a>. The former is a bamboo
flute, while the latter is a type of lute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Although Takemitsu was strongly
influenced by Western music (Debussy, Messiaen, & Webern particularly)
& indeed at one point expressed an aversion to traditional Japanese
music—because it reminded him of World War II militarism—he began incorporating
elements of Japanese music into his compositions under the influence of John
Cage beginning in the early 1960s. Takemitsu’s 1967 composition “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Steps">November Steps</a>” for biwa, shakuhachi,
& orchestra is related to “Eclipse”.</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Performer playing shakuhachi in 60th Himeji
oshiro festival, 2009”. Photo by Wiki user <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Corpse_Reviver">Corpse Reviver</a>, who makes it
available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license</a>. </span></i></li>
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makes it available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/jp/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution 2.1 Japan license</a>. </span></i></li>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am going to speak of hope</span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I don’t suffer this pain
as César Vallejo. I don’t grieve now as an artist, as a man or even as a simple
living being. I don’t suffer this pain as a catholic, or a muslim, or an
atheist. Today I only suffer. If I weren’t called César Vallejo, I’d still
suffer this same pain. If I weren’t an artist, I’d still suffer with it. If I
weren’t a man or even a living being, I’d still suffer with it. If I weren’t a
catholic, an atheist or a muslim, I’d still suffer with it. Today I suffer from
further down. Today I only suffer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I grieve now without
explanations. My pain’s so deep it has neither a cause nor the lack of a cause.
What would its cause be? Where is that thing of such importance it might leave
off being the cause? Nothing is its cause; nothing has been able to leave off
being its cause. From what has this pain been born, by itself? My pain’s from
the north wind & the south wind, like neutered eggs that some rare birds
lay conceived from the wind. If my bride were dead, my pain would be the same.
If they’d sliced my throat to the root, my pain would be the same. If life
were, in short, some other way, my pain would be the same. Today I suffer from
higher up. Today I only suffer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I look at the hungry man’s
pain & see that his hunger walks so far from my pain that if I starved
myself to death, a blade of grass would turn up at my grave at least. The same
with the lover. How generative his blood is, unlike mine without spring or
consummation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used to believe that all
things in the universe were, inevitably, fathers or sons. But here’s my pain
today, neither father nor son. It lacks a back for nightfall, just as it has
too much chest for daybreak & if they put it in a bright room, it wouldn’t
cast a shadow. Today I suffer, come what may. Today I only suffer.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">César Vallejo, “Voy a
hablar de la esperanza”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Translation by Jack
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">1. new moon</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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if about to set below the curb’s rise—</span></div>
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blank disc invisible past the pink clouds</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">2. waxing crescent</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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planet next to this swelling crescent</span></div>
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out of round against a purple curtain</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">5. full moon </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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the security light’s high amber heat—</span></div>
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hummingbird feeder, dangling from a beam,</span></div>
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the half moon’s upturned bowl sinks into clouds</span></div>
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