Basho’s Journey in Colombia place for lonely tranquillity excitement from last night’s full moon return to New York “the sound resembles a lute, flute, and a drum and the waves blend with the echoes of heaven” the pine exhales old qi or chi the evening cool at riverside drive “I’ve been fond of my eccentricities” “my eyes opened to emptiness” David Landis Barnhill State University of New York Press 2005