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Far Below Me
10:00
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Far below me, sooty-oyster-catchers wheel across the shallows,
orange beaks and black backs stark against a sea of foam.
Like sheets of living lace, white waves advance,
dissolving, dispersing, retreating…
endlessly inundated by the next fizzing bolt of intricate lacework,
rolled out for inspection.
I’m captivated...
mesmerized by wrinkles of translucent filigree.
骨 hone, 葉 happa, 石 ishi, 響 hibiki,
買 kai, 種 tane, 羽 hane, 小枝 koeda.
I found a bone, a leaf, a stone, an echo
and a shell, a seed, a twig, a bone, a feather.
Faraway people walk to the golden sky,
their footprints — stitches
tacked around a scalloped hem of blinding silver.
Only spindly-legged shadows remain
as briny tongues lick the shore clean.
骨、葉、石、響、買、種、羽、小枝。
Bone, leaf, stone, shell, seed, twig, bone, feather, echo.
Shadow!
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For Most of My Existence
05:03
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For most of my existence,
I've not followed conversations or read books.
Most of my time I've been scattered in the elements of the cosmos.
The time for reading or conversation is only brief...
It's a peaceful letting go, this time of life.
A preparation.
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Evening Cantillations
04:46
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Aftermath
08:56
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takayna ashes -
on the sand
two speckled eggs
one cracked open
inside
a tiny, wet mass
shivers
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Anne M Norman Melbourne, Australia
Anne is a shakuhachi player performing in a wide range of music. Anne trained in Japan in 3 lineages with Nakamura Shindo,
Tajima Tadashi and Yamaguchi Goro. She has played since 1986 (following 14 years of playing silver flute). Some of Anne's albums are available as Compact Disks.
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