BLOGS!
SAKURA (Cherry Blossoms)
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Luck is luck. I'll admit it.
And it was only luck that brought us to play Kanazawa, Japan this week- this week, when the city's most beautiful park is not only boasting Cherry Blossoms at their peak, but is also strategically lit at night to accentuate the quiet beauty of the Sakura's. Oh, and there's no fee to get in, either. This week only. The week we're here.
Luck is luck.
Cherry Blossoms are the trees that angels sit under when they go on a picnic.
And when children tell make-believe stories to each other
and the characters in the stories are sitting under a tree,
the child who tells the story doesn't have to describe the tree
and the child who is hearing the story doesn't have to ask 'what kind of tree?'
because they are both imagining the same tree-
Unostentatious, their song is a simple one
A few recognizable chords played in an unrecognizable order
Turning beauty on itself, over again, gently and elegantly
Because they are in bloom for only three weeks a year
they remain permanent fixtures inside the dreams
of all the birds of Kanazawa
Three weeks.
A bright, sudden flash of beauty upon the Earth and then
a quick death.
They are a good omen.
Carefully painted on suicide bomber planes in World War II
intended to represent the ephemeral nature of life.
The ephemeral nature of life
On a kamikaze mission
A bright, sudden flash of beauty upon the Earth and then a quick death.
They are clouds with brown branches.
They are ghosts with roots.
