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
What Shines Does Not Always Need To	Adam Clay	10/28/2016
The Map	Marie Howe	10/26/2016
Native Memory	Ansel Elkins	10/26/2016
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath	Natasha Trethewey	10/25/2016
Descent of the Composer	Airea D. Matthews	10/24/2016
Talisman	Marianne Moore	10/23/2016
Song	T. S. Eliot	10/21/2016
An Accounting	Brett Fletcher Lauer	10/21/2016
How I Almost Died in Peru	Patricia Colleen Murphy	10/20/2016
The Son I’ll Never Have	Mark Wunderlich	10/19/2016

Title

Author

Date

Adam Clay

10/28/2016