Friday, February 27, 2009

Cleaving buson



The Young Prince

“with no underrobes
bare butt suddenly
exposed a gust of
spring wind”
—Buson, translated
by Sam Hamill & J. P. Seaton,
The Poetry of Zen, Boston:
Shambhala, 2004, page 157.


how quickly—I move
when my toilet—is chilly
beneath—the cedars



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