The following poem was inspired by the Boston performance and album of the Beijing Trio – Asian American pianist Jon Jang, erhu virtuosos Jiebing Chen, and legendary percussionist Max Roach, on Asian Improv Records.

Beijing Trio Suite

1. Jiebing: Erhu

How the first sweet light of day
fills my heart with longing.

The infinite ache !

I sing all day
wishing for you;
my voice drifts across
the valley like
the wisps of fog:

remnants in mid-morning.

Still you do not answer.

My heart wants you
with such passion I dare not voice it

directly,

I can only sing my songs
across the empty valley.

My heart, my heart.


Why is it always

slowly breaking?

The infinite ache.

My desire

is as the river meets the deep sea.

Constant, moving,
crashing into the depths.

The infinite, infinite ache !

Beijing Trio2 - Drums

 

 

 

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