"You are mine, my crescent-shaped radiance"
Dickinson, Buson, Eilbert, Youssef, Coltrane
Emily Dickinson:
She laid her / docile Crescent / down / And this / mechanic Stone / Still states to
Dates that have / forgot / The News that / she is gone - // So constant to / its stolid Trust / The Shaft that / never knew -
Yosa Buson (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Natalie Eilbert:
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Saadi Youssef (tr. from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa):
John Coltrane, “Crescent”:
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I'll see your "Crescent" and raise you a "Spiritual" (Afro Blue Impressions or Live Trane · The European Tours) Grant Reed
Some mornings the Sharpener lands and explodes like a grenade blasting everything on my desk sky high. (I had never even heard the names Eilbert or Youssef!) I'll have to listen to the Coltrane one more time before straightening up. Thanks Mr. Singer!