winter moon
a homeless man's shadow
slips into the church
A Hundred Gourds, 1:1, December 2011
One Man's Maple Moon: Empty Sky and Snow Tanka by Izumi Shikibu
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*English Original*
Why did you vanish
into empty sky?
Even the fragile snow,
when it falls,
falls in this world.
*The Ink Dark Moon*, 1990
Izumi Shikibu
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