IN EARLY SUMMER I OFTEN WALK HERE
A beauty in our city,
Wears pearls loosely pendant at her waist
To wash her
In their tintinnabulation.
In the spring garden she teases
Her parrot; she strums
Her pi-pa, and the moonlight
Scatters through the strings.
All year her song enveloped our ears;
We watched her trim dance
A thousand times.
No one thinks: one cold wind blackens the hibiscus.
-Han Shan
Franco Falsini- Parte 2 from Cold Nose
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Brainticket- Rainbow
The Double Moon
The double moon, one on the high backdrop of the West, one on the curve of the river face,
The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am taking these home in a basket, hung on an elbow, such a teeny weeny elbow, in my head.
I saw them last night, a cradle moon, two horns of a moon, such an early hopeful moon, such a child's moon for all young hearts to make a picture of.
The river--I remember this like a picture--the river was the upper twist of a written question mark.
I know it takes many many years to write a river, a twist of water asking a question.
And white stars moved when the moon moved, and one red star kept burning, and the Big Dipper was almost overhead.
-Carl Sandburg
Brainticket: Rainbow from Celestial Oceans
The double moon, one on the high backdrop of the West, one on the curve of the river face,
The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am taking these home in a basket, hung on an elbow, such a teeny weeny elbow, in my head.
I saw them last night, a cradle moon, two horns of a moon, such an early hopeful moon, such a child's moon for all young hearts to make a picture of.
The river--I remember this like a picture--the river was the upper twist of a written question mark.
I know it takes many many years to write a river, a twist of water asking a question.
And white stars moved when the moon moved, and one red star kept burning, and the Big Dipper was almost overhead.
-Carl Sandburg
Brainticket: Rainbow from Celestial Oceans
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