life plans
trailing the sun
few birds twitter
this cold November night
a shift to C minor
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Inspired by November with Basho Day 2:
Very Early on the twenty-seventh morning of the third moon, under a predawn haze, transparent moon barely visible, Mount Fuji just a shadow, I set out under the cherry blossoms of Ueno and Yanaka. When would I see them again?…
Spring passes
and the birds cry out– tears
in the eyes of fishes
Sam Hamill (Trsl.), The Essential Basho, page 4
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