getting dinner, we peeled
eggplants, cucumbers.
Translated by Robert Hass
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How admirable!
life is fleeting.Translated by Robert Hass
With a warbler for
this mountain willo
The winter leeks
How cold it is!
Behind this door
A different generation will celebrateThe Festival of Dolls.
Spring:
Veiled in morning mist.The beginning of autumn:Sea and emerald paddyBoth the same green.The winds of autumnBlow: yet still greenThe chestnut husks.A flash of lightning:Into the gloomGoes the heron’s cry.Translated by Geoffrey Bownas And Anthony Thwaite
Awake at night–
cracking in the cold.Translated by Robert Hass