Narcissus / Echo

Thursday, 15 October 2009 07:18
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NarcissusEcho
is the core story
remembered as ourselves
we think his faults ours
see ourselves watching
ourself looking		is our response
an afterthought
lingering away
a broken heart
to nothing
Yet they were once
separate     tales
joined by a canny Roman
two halves of the whole
really the same:

the story is the heart

—8 December 2002, 19 January 2003

That more or less gets the 'right' formatting.

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As language practice, I like to translate poetry. My current project is Chinese, with practice focused on Tang Dynasty poetry. Previously this was classical Japanese, most recently working through the Kokinshu anthology (archived here). Suggestions, corrections, and questions always welcome.

There's also original pomes in the journal archives.

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