Two by Issa

Here's a small beauty, translated by Robert Hass, from Issa, a great way to start a weekend:



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A cuckoo sings
to me, to the mountain
__to the mountain.

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And, while walking to work this week, I saw the first morning glory in bloom; I've been watching tendril progress for weeks. Here's another Issa take, this time translated by David Lanoue, assisted by Shingi Ogawa:


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morning-glory--
one inch from its tip
darkness

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best,
Don