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Backs to the Wind   Karina Klesko, US: Sabaki Eiko Yachimoto, JP: Renku Counsel Norman Darlington, IE: (Creator of the Triparshva/Mentor) Betty Kaplan-US John Daleiden-US   SIDE 1-JO    backs to the wind we gather round a brazier swapping tales /nd   bears and wolves in the blackest forest /ey   all the old habits hung out on the line at the convent /kk   hidden under the doormat the forgotten key /bk   a sliver of moon through the evening haze reveals our path /jd   water mirrors its shadow, the garden's mountain rose  /Muramori* /nd /ey   SIDE 2 - HA   blind-folded lady, us with no voting rights shedding tears of joy /ey dumping twenty headless bodies in a pit /nd   this morning summer butterflies color my private sky** /jd   midnight sun, fantastic light in fantastic darkness /kk   we danced and we danced "The Anniversary Waltz" unaltered by time /bk   along the wood grain a shelf of your photographs /ey   the whisper of a heart within that first leaf's fall /nd   fresh red apples at a roadside stand /jd   moon viewing  from every window  on the train /kk   hero or villain?  the nitty-grit of jesse james /bk    SIDE 3-KYU   burning the throat a shot of bourbon punctuates my life /ey spin the Hanukkah dreidel*** nun-gimel-hay-shin /kk   a whale breaches the unconstrained expansion of a galaxy /nd   she paints a tractor into a barren landscape /jd   wild plum blossoms call to the bees to rest upon their petals /bk heat shimmers winding through city streets /kk     Notes   * Verse 6:  Muramori:    mizu ni kaga sou niwa no yamabuki the water mirrors its shadow the garden's mountain rose translated by Norman Darlington and Eiko Yachimoto **Verse 9: Your Private Sky—Your Private Sky is the title of a Buckminster Fuller book and an Exhibition, 1999. ***Verse 18: Dreidel is a game children play during Hanukkah using a four-sided top; the Hebrew letters on the four sides are nun, gimel, hay, and shin which form a Hebrew acronym meaning "A great miracle happened there."     Renku Information   Covey of Noisy Quail:  Sketchbook Vol. 2, No. 3: September 2007           Vertical Version                Horizontal Version The Triparshva: an introduction – Norman Darlington & John Carley