first snow

first snow--
great luck to be here
in my own hut


Bashō
(tr. by David Landis Barnhill)

..

the prayer of the clothespin

attach me to the tree

to your breath

to the light flickering

in the shadow

to the dark spreading

inside the day

attach me to anything

i don't care

as long as you free me

from myself.

..

on the under side of things

A curse is written

On the under side of things

Behind the smiling mirror

And behind the smiling moon

Follow follow.

T.S. Eliot

..

...

Beneath things is a great well of silence, resounding with life.

Claude Margat

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