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Sky and Water: sedoka
Why is the sky blue except from reflected water stretched between small bits of land? Why is water blue except its depths mirror skies above it, touching everything? 23 MAY 2017 Share This:
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Tagged #BookofForms, connection, duality, Japanese verse forms, nature, poetic forms, sedoka, sky, water
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Something about a city on a river
There’s something about a city on a river: it could be near the ocean’s coast stuck like a tick on the business end of the delta, or somewhere upstream where the supply ships send their soldiers, sorghum and saltpeter for … Continue reading
River Road
Down at the end of river road the houses show off concrete knees, with skirts drawn just above the mud that creeps up through the Augustine beginning early June. Some rivers, when they start, seem nothing like their parent ocean’s … Continue reading