My precious wife -
if only she were here!    
This moon tonight......      


The
Fourth
Garden

Cups of crocus rain
Splash of wind in lilac lane,
Silver moment;
Spring.

A giant firefly:
that way, this way, that way, this -
and it passes by.

Right at my feet -
and when did you get here,
snail?

Poverty's child -
he starts to grind the rice,  
and gazes at the moon.      


 

Moon-cloud snow tonight
Fields of summer fall to ice;
here alone I am.  

 
 

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