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Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hicko… called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting… or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt, I’d call into the leav…
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
Don’t call this world adorable, or… It’s frisky, and a theater for mor… The eyelash of lightning is neithe… The struck tree burns like a pilla… But the blue rain sinks, straight…
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
The feet of the heron, under those bamboo stems, hold the blue body, the great beak above the shallows
Did you too see it, drifting, all… Did you see it in the morning, ris… An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and li… into the bondage of its wings; a s…
Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts,
The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
centerYou are standing at the edge… at twilight when something begins to sing, like a waterfall pouring down
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.