The Logic of the Sea and Me
The waves announce the names,
announce the names, announce
the names. The whole horizon
reveals an aura wrapped
around some islands which
create the body waking
within the sea, within
that space, within this heart.
I am that name, I am
the holy blue horizon.
Islands dot my body
stretched throughout this sea
of something for the lack
of better words I call
the hydrologic me.
~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 ...
5 days ago
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