as the two halves of a melon.
Translated by Robert Hass
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Wrapping the rice cakes,
she fingers back her hair.Translated by Robert Hass
The winter leeks
How cold it is!
Passing through the world
Sogi’s rain shelter
On the cow shed
Cock crowing.
The banana tree
into the bucket
Waking in the night;
the oil freezing.It has rained enoughto turn the stubble on the fieldblack.Winter rainfalls on the cow-shed;a cock crows.The leeksnewly washed white,-how cold it is!The sea darkens;the voices of the wild ducksare faintly white.Ill on a journey;my dreams wanderover a withered moor.