Tanka V
So this is the reed? The very pipes for singing-- Life plays me new songs. Wistfully from out the dawn The crows broke across the sky!
Lewis Alexander
So this is the reed? The very pipes for singing-- Life plays me new songs. Wistfully from out the dawn The crows broke across the sky!
The speaker catches himself in a moment of recognition: he is the reed, the hollow pipe life breathes through to make music. There’s surprise in the opening — “So this is the reed?” — as if he has just realized that he is not the musician but the instrument.
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