eileen chengyin chow · @chowleen
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“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars."
-Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities” trans. Stanislaw Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
(my poet crush has the last word in the season of awakening insects)
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska
eileen chengyin chow · @chowleen
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“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars."
-Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities” trans. Stanislaw Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
(my poet crush has the last word in the season of awakening insects)
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska
eileen chengyin chow · @chowleen
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Recalling the Taoist parable
莊周夢蝶 “Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly” — and the tradition’s fascination with ephemerality of life, often expressed by the life cycle of insects: “To be born with the morning and gone by dusk.” 「朝生暮死」
From Ch 2 of the Zhuang Zi:
#驚蟄 #microseasons #spring #translation #Zhuangzi #insects
#驚蟄 #microseasons #spring #translation #Zhuangzi #insects
eileen chengyin chow · @chowleen
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March 6-10: we enter into the early spring season of #驚蟄 or “Awakening the Insects.”
Or in Japanese micro-seasons, “Hibernating insects surface.”
驚蟄：初候，桃始華；陽和發生，自此漸盛。二候，倉庚鳴；黃鸝也。三候，鷹化為鳩。鷹，鷙鳥也。此時鷹化為鳩，至秋則鳩復化為鷹。
#microseasons #seasons #spring #Japanese #Chinese #calendar #節氣 #insects
#驚蟄 #microseasons #seasons #spring #japanese #chinese #calendar #節氣 #insects