Appleblossom
Difficult shacks of Kushiro, too far afield, at least theirs are not
our roofless griefs even farther in the marshes that are huge buckets
of green tea in the rainy season — you glisten as you go, Basho,
wring out your sleeves. Frog keeps its knees in its armpits on plant flotilla
and Duck of all the birds is shaped most like a canoe. We were not built
for this and anyway, standing smack dab in no-man"s-land you can stop
and say, Here is a place made famous in poems. Aren"t you such a place?
from Poetry Magazine, Vol. 193, no. 1. Used with Permission
our roofless griefs even farther in the marshes that are huge buckets
of green tea in the rainy season — you glisten as you go, Basho,
wring out your sleeves. Frog keeps its knees in its armpits on plant flotilla
and Duck of all the birds is shaped most like a canoe. We were not built
for this and anyway, standing smack dab in no-man"s-land you can stop
and say, Here is a place made famous in poems. Aren"t you such a place?
from Poetry Magazine, Vol. 193, no. 1. Used with Permission
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