Monday, December 24

from basho

a cicada shell
it sang itself utterly
away


year after year
on the monkey's face
a monkey's face
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am reading this great compliation (edited by robert hass!) of 3 major haiku poets. just finished the matsuo basho section.

can't write; i'm going to stuff myself full of poetry over the break.

any reading suggestions?

2 comments:

abby.sugar said...
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ablefires said...

i've been reading some poems by li-young lee on poets.org. i like them. tell me what you think.