Poetry
Summer 1963
Drinking with Friends There
The Meandering River Poems (from Tu Fu) II. Drinking with Friends There Tall marsh fowl stalk through the shallows As little birds nag at the willow buds; A few wild […]
Poetry
Summer 1963
Spring Goes
The Meandering River Poems (from Tu Fu) IV. Spring Goes Petal by petal, the Spring dissolves. A small wind carries the rest away. All nature conspires to sadden me, But […]
Poetry
Summer 1963
I Go Too
The Meandering River Poems (from Tu Fu) V. I Go Too Each day when Court is over, I skip to the pawnshop, My nice Spring wardrobe underneath my arm. Bit […]
Poetry
Summer 1963
Drinking There Alone
The Meandering River Poems (from Tu Fu) III. Drinking There Alone I perch on the riverbank, forgetting to go back, Gaze down at the lucent palaces as they slip their […]
Poetry
Summer 1963
Rain There
The Meandering River Poems (from Tu Fu) I. Rain There Spring clouds rest on the walls of the Royal Park. Dusk mutes the passionate coloring of blossoms. Enclosed by the […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Summer 1962
A Month in Summer
In haibun, which combines prose and poetry (in the four-line form in which Nobuyuki Yuasa has translated Issa’s haiku) FIRST DAY: Several years ago I wrote this, in imitation of […]