Best Fustian Poems

5.  Murasame’s Story Concludes

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


MATSUKAZE & MURASAME 
(chanting in harmony) 
Pine wind, and autumn rain, 
women, sorrow: men, disdain! 

MURASAME 
As...

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Oft I flew as an artigiano over turbid and stern feelings,
Blowing hard into alpenhorn to shake the mountains built to protect,
Pale-hued gems, aneurysms of loving, resisted the temptation,
They malignantly affected me, as my twaddle does when it dazzles in twilight.
Fustian echoes from the distance cascade...

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