Windbell with Bamboos 1 Verve I see it again in the sacred trinkets stall at Inari Shrine— the little windbell voicing its verve on my veranda. 2 Relocation I dangled it there among the Buddha bamboos in the shiftless air— the windbell that days before had dinged too much by my door. 3 Unintended It’s not quite what I wanted when I hung the wind- bell in the bamboos: they cherished it as their own and coddled to death its tone. Andrew Lansdown Japanese Reflections i Bashful violets are you familiar…
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