Reading Keats in a Japanese Garden


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The bamboo plant, an essential element of Japanese painting, has a life span of only a decade, dying  when it flowers.
            Little History of Landscape Painting
 
Stand of green bamboo:
            hollow-jointed flute whose leaves
                        are lances; stems, turtles
 
cowering, shell to
            shell; blossoming white, world-wide,
                        then gone, in one
 
superlative spring;
            o mother of paper, o father
                        of pen, o teacher
 
of all we need know
            on earth—beauty’s the greatest
                        distance between faults.

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