Transparencies: Lovers Sing To Each, Death The Veil Between Them, After Japanese Noh Theater
.for Father William Rowell
Act 1
Each stanza is a scene or theatrical screen in which the drama is eternally unfolding...
O each eye holds a temple.
Each eye curves away from each.
Each knee contains a hidden country -
paddies are green now and ready for gleaning.
Green now and ready for gleaning,
each breath moves in rhythm.
Other's hands burn the thick rushes-
Go ghostly to ashes.
Go ghostly to ashes;
an obi, a sash opening.
Slash of swords and tongue
now lashes between laps
twain to twain, torches kneel
twining knots each to each.
Twining knots each to each,
reach arms toward dormant summits.
Adore. Summon. Rumor either
to either -
That other snows are melting besides Fuji's.
That other snows are melting besides Fuji's
rush fevers to still lips grown bluer.
Blow warmly then, Awakening Fire.
Blue blushes to purple -
grapes swell in ripening arbors, the quiet pond reflecting.
Ripening arbors the quiet pond reflecting,
a pair of swans leans forward into water
through mirrored peaks rippling there,
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poem by Warren Falcon
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