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Early moonrise over Lake Ketchum
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CORMORANT IMITATING A PENGUIN
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More from the Gary Snyder poem about Cormorants:
"Toes writing in water
rocks drawn with dribbles
scat incense in the wind
cormorants open their thin black wings
talk about art, lecture the
clouds of tiny fish"
from his book Danger on Peaks, Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004, $22
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WHAZZIS?
Practice calligraphy by yours truly
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A question is posed by a reader:
Okay. Here's a question: Issa cormorant in Nirvana?
What is the cry of
one cormorant in the dawn?
silence descending
Is there a Basho on tonight?
KM 12/11/2004
Pretty punny, I respond. Incidentally, Ken, Basho, with a long accent on the "o," is pronounced Bass-o, which pretty much kills the easy pun.
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SURELY NOT CORMORANT SCAT?
Untitled Mark Tobey painting from the Tacoma Art Museum
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And while we are on the subject of cormorants, this from Gary Snyder's new book, Danger On Peaks, just published by Shoemaker and Hoard,112 pages, $22:
"Dropping down rock ledges toward the breakers see a long flat/point spiked with upright black cormorants and a few gulls gray/and white. Rocks dabbed with threads and dribbles of bird-white, "White writing" like Mark Tobey did—drawn in loops and splatters/—lime-rich droppings point back to the fish waves."
and there is more, much more, to this poem.
Maybe later. . . .
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