Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

^{translated from the Japanese by}^{Kimiko Hahn}

[In the next room an anchor reports on border crossings]
this and that - drifts to mind - must be the sakura

[In the next room an anchor reports on increased bombing]
along this road - on which no one sets out - autumn’s foot fall

[In the next room an anchor reports on recent banned books]
Futami Bay where - a traveller severs clam from shell - I cut out into fall

さまざまの事おもひ出す櫻かな
samazama no koto omoidasu sakura kana

この道や行く人なしに秋のくれ
kono michi ya iku hito nashi ni ai no kure

蛤のふたみにわかれ行秋ぞ
hamaguri no futami ni wakare yuku aki zo

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	04/29/2019
An Adieu	Florence Earle Coates	04/28/2019
Fides, Spes	Willa Cather	04/27/2019
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend]	Terrance Hayes	04/26/2019
Nearly	Idra Novey	04/25/2019
The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman	Fernando Valverde	04/24/2019
Fall	Didi Jackson	04/23/2019
The Creative Drive	Catherine Barnett	04/22/2019
To Theodore	George Marion McClellan	04/21/2019
Why I Love Thee?	Sadakichi Hartmann	04/20/2019

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04/29/2019