1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts

Today’s poem is Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “During moments of political crises, I think of wind, how conflicts arise and unfold. Today’s poem, written some 17 centuries ago, effectuates a storm. In the very structure of its sentences, the poem enacts the motion of a mighty gust and its aftermath — a murmuring calm and quiet that claims our being.”

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