Saturday, October 8, 2016

Untitled Poem by Sami Mansei

"Kofukuji Temple in Nara," Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1937


  To what
Shall I compare the world?
   It is like the wake
Vanishing behind a boat
That has rowed away at dawn.

[Translated by Edwin Cranston]
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