nothing but the moon tonight—
and cotton-like clouds in burnished shreds...
above a ragged wall of black pine trees
lining the narrow road sporadically lit—
where I and this form of a shadow split.
~Kokoro Sonzai 2010 (trans. Son Rivers)
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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