Tag: Izumi Shikibu

• * short lyrics: (pre)spring mix

  As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…

  José Angel Araguz

  March 11, 2016

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• * Akhmatova & some news on the friday influence

  Willow – Anna Akhmatova  “And a worn-out cluster of trees.”                                   — Pushkin   In the cool nursery of the young century, I was born to a patterned tranquility, The voice of man was not sweet to me, But the wind’s voice I could understand. I loved burdocks and nettles, But the silver willow best…

  José Angel Araguz

  July 20, 2012

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