For the return of the Issa's Sunday Service, it's the first appearance of a band with as many literary pretensions as one can have: the fabulous The Smiths. This tune's only litrock element is the allusion to the Bard in the title; otherwise, the lyrics are pure unrequited Smith's kinda love.
Enjoy.
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This week's feature poem is from Lilliput Review #73, November 1995.
¶ever catch a glimpse of a stone breathing?
-almost a burden.Scarecrow
humidity--
from beneath a stone
wildflowers
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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4 comments:
neat link/poems and
I just can-not resist:
stone girl
in the bushes
peeing
and
full moon
I think I'm in love
with a rock
Ed, you're prescient, just seconds before I read from LR #53
Pissing and trembling -
laugh at me crickets
Issa
Don ...
yeah yeah but I
didn't remember the poem as it was...with more of a narrative that "thickens the plot/stew"
Stone Girl
in her garden
peeing
I think that it would be a terrific "giggle" (for me) to be back and forth bandying "shorties" with Issa ... rat-tat-tat
rat-tat-tat
or, even Ikkyu
Of course, you didn't remember it, just a synchronicity kind of thing ...
A back and forth with Issa/Ikky and Baker sounds like just the ticket ...
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