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of the Buddha on the moor
hang icicles.
Issa/trans. Robert Hass=20
Nursing, mother counts
the fleabites on her daughter=92s
small white body
Issa/trans. Sam Hamill
Summer=92s first melon
lies firmly hugged to the breast
of a sleeping child
Issa/ trans. Hamill=20
My hand,
a thing with hairs,
rising and falling with my belly.
Jack Kerouac=20
On the withered grass
Shimmering heat waves rise
One or two inches high.
Basho/trans. Makota Ueda=20
At night, quietly
A worm in the moonlight
Digs into a chestnut.
Basho/trans. Ueda
Bright autumn moon;
pond snails hissing
in the saucepan.
Issa/trans. Robert Hass
This line of black ants =96=20
maybe it goes all the way back
to that white cloud!
Issa/trans. Robert Bly
The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.
Issa/trans. Hass
The snow beginning to melt,
With my stick I made a great river
At the front gate.
Issa/trans. R.H. Blyth
Seasonal rain =96=20
Poetry cards have been peeled off,
Leaving traces on the walls.
Basho/trans. Ueda
Eleven horsemen =96=20
not one of them turns his head =96=20
through the wind-blown snow.
Shiki/trans. Ciarin Carson=20
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The floors are ice cold.
I walk the dark, and snap! step
On my dead wife's comb.
Buson/trans. Peter Van Toorn=20
The temple bell stops =96=20
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
Basho/trans. Bly
The squid-seller's voice
Is indistinguishable
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