spring rain:
browsing under an umbrella
at the picture-book store

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entangled with
the scattering cherry blossoms—
the wings of birds!

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two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain

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The man
I used to meet in the mirror
is no more.
Now I see a wasted face.
It dribbles tears.

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in memory of
the spring now passing
I drew
the long clusters of wisteria
that move like waves

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curtains drawn,
the emperor's love
still lies abed—
on crimson peonies,
the morning sun shines

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the bucket's water
poured out and gone,
drop by drop
dew drips like pearls
from the autumn flowers

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I do not know the day
my pain will end yet
in the little garden
I had them plant
seeds of autumn flowers

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I remember plucking
buds of bush clover
long ago with
Satsuma geta on my feet and
a walking stick in my hand

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saw the country
and returned—now deep at night
I lie in bed and
fields of mustard flowers
bloom before my eyes

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