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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
Basho, David Young
Each poem is a tiny door,
or better still,
a window.
Light as a snowflake,
slippery as a whale,
poised as a candle,
silent as an orchid.
We’ve walked a long way together.
Somewhere ahead of us
a horse whinnies,
a crow calls,
a beetle’s becoming a firefly.
The horse and the crow are a poem.
The firefly lights our way.
Young (b. 1936) has translated Basho, as well as Du Fu and Petrarch.
---L.
Subject quote from Domination of Black, Wallace Stevens.
Basho, David Young
Each poem is a tiny door,
or better still,
a window.
Light as a snowflake,
slippery as a whale,
poised as a candle,
silent as an orchid.
We’ve walked a long way together.
Somewhere ahead of us
a horse whinnies,
a crow calls,
a beetle’s becoming a firefly.
The horse and the crow are a poem.
The firefly lights our way.
Young (b. 1936) has translated Basho, as well as Du Fu and Petrarch.
---L.
Subject quote from Domination of Black, Wallace Stevens.
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