house painters --
the young walnut tree's
branches tied back
Eric Burke
Rehn Kovacic
from his hole the snake
glances back...
corrupt world of desire
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
Found bit, from Mary Oliver's prose poem, West Wind #7 from her book West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems. This is the second verse:
---Today Bill tells us - for a mockingbird has begun to sing -
---how a friend came during the summer and filled a bowl with
---fruit from the cherry tree. Then, leaving the bowl on the
---stoop, he went inside to sit with Bill at the kitchen table. To-
---gether Bill and his friend watched the mockingbird come to
---the bowl, take the cherries one by one, fly back across the yard
---and drop them under the branches of the tree. When the
---bowl was empty the bird settled again in the leaves and began
---to sing vigorously.
---Mary Oliver
gate's cherry tree
all this flit-flit flitting
is work!Issa translated by David Lanoue
best,
Don
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