tanka
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Good Blue Clay
Tanka, by Ono No Oyu The city of Nara of good blue clay glows like a blooming flower, now at its prime Source: Ono No Oyu. “Tanka.” From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, edited by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 43. Photo: Church…
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Osaka Migraine
salarymen slide kotatsuon the fourth floorsnoring wife swimmingdotonbori far off streetrace shadow of rats i listen, hearinga much sought after freedom,still long for last call
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Miyazawa Kenji
Wikipedia Poem, No. 971 clouds and the white stream brain snow has-been tomatoes in the eyes adrift on a mach of arms toward the bodhisattva at dawn on the depth of everesting clouds and the gloom the dark seaweed insects fly away in the washes partition the twilight comes toward the blue radiant moonsteel pen…
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