Westron wind, when wilt thou blow
That small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!
if I suffer at this
typewriter
think how I'd feel
among the lettuce-
pickers of Salinas?
The Master said,
'It is by the Odes that the mind is aroused.'
It is by the Rules of Propriety that the character is established.
'It is from Music that the finish is received.'
The Master said,
'The people may be made to follow a path of action,
but they may not be made to understand it.
On my wall hangs a Japanese carving,
The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer.
Sympathetically I observe
The swollen veins of the forehead, indicating
What a strain it is to be evil.
The species Man and Marmozet
Are intimately linked;
The Marmozet survives as yet,
But Men are all extinct.
The map of the world is felt from the inside. Rough around the coastlines and smooth over the hills and sand dunes. Warm and moist through the rivers which lead outside to the forests like long hair then sparser like shorter more bristly hair to the touch. Reading a glove of the world its topography in relief. Reading with the fingers as though blind. Feeling it with the back, down the spine. Making contact with the nipples and the nose only. Moving at a fast rate underwater trough the oceans and large lakes. Most fo the oceans connect up with each other.
The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.
Translated by Robert Hass
The man in the North,
He pledged his troth,
To find a Richmond barber,
But the man in the South,
He mashed his mouth
At a place they call Cold Harbor.
Aman said to the universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the universe,
'The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.'
The Mahakali~
slow silent and still
from mountain height
(Note: The Mahakali is a Himalayan river between India and Nepal, near the Kailash-Mansarovar route.)
