Archive for June, 2008

JUNE, TOO, BEARS HAIKU-GOODIES

Dec. 8 2008 Meridian Festival, Bukarest : Basso Moderno premieres my new “Quasi Una Perla”. Thus:
A last alone the
Long day writhing into night
Moon-shine is my love
René Magritte was
Off on his French hobby-horse:
“I am NOT my pipe!”
Age-old Greek river,
Was unwashed Heraklitus
Ever smelled again?

TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING

In 1987 I pared the quill and wrote: ” Two Hardy Referentialists And The Debate On Expression In
Music”. ( International Review Of The Aesthetics And Sociology Of Music IRASM 18, 2, 237 – 245 )
In this bee-loud glade
My nine and fifty plum-trees
They and I blooming

ISSA TRANSLATED IN HOT JUNE

Ora è buio Jetzt ist es Zwielicht
Sulle isole pini Sie sind wie Faust und Fäustchen
Pugno e pugno [...]