Fabrication
I’ve read the history books,
and clipper ships once spanned
this harbor with their rigging,
bent on places once
the terror. This we know
from chronicles and paintings.
But none has leaked a single
second in the making,
never mind an era.
~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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