PAUSING THE ACTION

emisira wo

uchitairagete

kachitoki no

koe agesomen

haru wa kinikere

The spring has come

When, raising our voices

In a shout of triumph,

We will first celebrate

The destruction of the barbarians.

    -- Hiraga Motoyoshi (1800-1865)

Anthony Moore: World Service (Link)

Arp and Anthony Moore: Spinette (Link)

POTTED PLUM BLUES (SHIKI)

when to my pillow

no friends come

I lie alone

turned to face

the potted plums

makurabe ni

tonomaki toko wa

hachiue no

ume ni mukaite

hitori fushi ori

John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band: Yer Blues (Link). 

top:  ms. Page from cookbook of unknown ladies, potted plums recipe, British, ca. 1690s.   

bottom:  Utagawa  Kuniyasu, Actor  Bandô  Mit sugorô  III  Looking at a Potted Plum,  Japanese, Edo period, about 1820s.

DEEP, DEEP PURPLE (SHIKI)

the purple of the wisteria

that moves like waves

if made into a painting

would have to be a deep, deep purple

fuji nami no

hana no murasaki

e ni kakeba

koki murasaki ni

kakubekarikeri

Deep Purple: My Woman From Tokyo (Link)

SATURDAY MORNING FEVER (SHIKI, 1901)

 

yūgao no                        I dream of making

tana tsukuran to             a trellis for moon-flowers

omoedomo                      to climb

aki machigatenu              but oh my life that will not

waga inochi kamo            bear the weight till autumn!

 

Note:  How on earth can anyone stand to live with me?  I’ve borne the weight till autumn, by the way, but not gracefully. 

Tonight we adjourned again to our drive, a majestic platform fit for Chariots Of The Gods? visits, at significant sunset.  We live deep inside forest and overlook woods and rises from Signal Hill, Chester County's apex.  Light the most beautiful I had ever seen; no Hollywood artificer-necromancer conjuring A Midsummer’s Night Dream light could possibly have improved it.  It fit my inside-outside-somewhere I guess mood, was substrating, honest and real.  No ballooning spiders but instead a stone, a leaf and an unfound door. 

 

She Darked The Sun -- Dillard and Clark (Link)