stephen addiss | cloud calligraphy

STEPHEN ADDISS

..an exhalation
of crickets—
..tap dance class

..humming softly
the bumblebee
..goes out for lunch

..inching down the street
a centipede
..of 4-year olds

..old pond paved over
into a parking lot—
..one frog still singing

[from CLOUD CALLIGRAPHY, Red Moon Press , 2010] www.redmoonpress.com

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

After studying with John Cage, Stephen Addiss traveled for 16 years performing folk and traditional music in Asia, Africa, and the United States as part of the duo “Addiss & Crofut.” He then completed a PhD at the University of Michigan and began teaching a variety of subjects, focusing on Japanese and Zen arts, first at the University of Kansas and now at the University of Richmond. Addiss is the author or co-author of many books and museum catalogues on East Asian culture, serves a co-editor of South by Southeast Haiku Arts Journal, and has had his poems and paintings published and exhibited frequently.