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Eaten alive by

lice and fleas -- now the horse

beside my pillow pisses

 

 

 

 

Along the roadside,

blossoming wild roses

in my horse's mouth

 

 

 

 

Even that old horse

is something to see this

snow-covered morning

 

 

 

 

On the white poppy,

a butterfly's torn wing

is a keepsake

 

 

 

 

The bee emerging

from deep within the peony

departs reluctantly

 

 

 

 

Crossing long fields,

frozen in its saddle,

my shadow creeps by

 

 

 

 

A mountain pheasant cry

fills me with fond longing for

father and mother

 

 

 

 

Slender, so slender

its stalk bends under dew --

little yellow flower

 

 

 

 

New Year's first snow -- ah --

just barely enough to tilt

the daffodil

 

 

 

 

In this warm spring rain,

tiny leaves are sprouting

from the eggplant seed

 

 

 

 

O bush warblers!

Now you've shit all over

my rice cake on the porch

 

 

 

 

For those who proclaim

they've grown weary of children,

there are no flowers

 

 

 

 

Nothing in the cry

of cicadas suggests they

are about to die

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