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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Another fishing poem

A hundred mountains and no bird,
A thousand paths without a footprint;
A little boat, a bamboo cloak,
An old man fishing in the cold river-snow.

I also set this to music a while back, a translation by Witter Bynner of a Chinese poem; it goes well with the Niedecker poem that I just set to music in my favorite key of Db Major. 

I gave the Niedecker poem melancholy cast, with a bit of a Duke Ellington vibe.