Wednesday, November 15, 2023

And rain is here now, too.

 "In late fall of 1694, when Basho was fifty-one, he wrote in his journal, 'Since yesterday the shigure rain has been falling, chot chot.' The following day he opened a haiku session with this poem:

Aki mo haya paratsuku ame no tsuki no nari

Fall now

moonshape reflected in

raindrops."

page 220, Liza Dalby, "november 6 through 10" "water begins to freeze" 

East Wind Melts The Ice

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