Personally
A thousand lives will orbit
your own each day. Each one
complies by laws of nature
distinctive from the ones
your world obeys. So pay
allegiance to the gravity
of your own. But question
even that: don’t let
false airs turn wings to stone.
~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 ...
4 days ago
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