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8. Outside My Window

a poem written in 2011 at home in Victoria at the end of a very long drought. Written on the same day as Rain Now and Then.

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outside my window summer trees stand stunned
adorned by water droplets sparkling in the morning light
while joyous bird calls fill my house with song
a weaving spider keenly watches bees
hovering from one flower to the next
a vertical string of sarcophagi beads threaded through her web
after years of bucketed bathwater
the garden laughs
as rain resumes its gift
this time more insistent than the last
heavy foliage bows in gratitude
in a world suffused by liquid particles of golden light

© Anne M Norman

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from Beneath the Surface, released August 3, 2016

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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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