Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hope Drops


"I was sweating bullets
but I dodged the one
that was not as much sweat as was lead."

Monday, January 24, 2011

Letters from Japan



The white chrysanthemum
Is disguised by the first frost.
If I wanted to pick one
I could find it only by chance.

Oshikochi No Mitsune

Saturday, January 22, 2011


I passed by the beach
At Tago and saw
The snow falling, pure white,
High on the peak of Fuji.


-Yamabe No Akahito