I turn my back
on Buddha and face
the cool moon

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the tree cut,
dawn breaks early
at my little window

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in the coolness
gods and Buddhas
dwell as neighbors

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scatter layer
by layer, eight-layered
cherry blossoms!

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wheat sowing—
the mulberry trees
lift bunched branches

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at the full moon's
rising, the silver-plumed
reeds tremble

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old garden—she empties
a hot-water bottle
under the moon

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fanning out its tail
in the spring breeze,
see—a peacock!

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rice reaping—
no smoke rising from
the cremation ground today

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In the coolness
of the empty sixth-month sky...
the cuckoo's cry.

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