All around my kayak and me and the birds and wildlife, Minneapolis was bubbling and churning with city life. But you wouldn’t know it from where I sat in my orange and yellow and red kayak, in the middle of the lake.
Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.
Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, "Zazen on Ching Ting Mountain," is by Li Bai and was translated by Sam Hamill and found in his book Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. It was read with permission of the poet and Tiger Bark Press. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.