Continuum
Before Son Rivers, I
believed I knew myself
a personality
as callow as leaflets, as
emotional as iron.
Little I knew that ages
ago, I exercised photo-
synthesis, and eons
from now, I’ll try oxidizing.
~Son Rivers 2006
A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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