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
Wound	Inge Pederson	04/12/2006
One of the Monkeys	Nicholas Johnson	04/10/2006
Theories of Time and Space	Natasha Trethewey	04/09/2006
International Incidents	Robert Hershon	04/08/2006
Stone Bird	Pattiann Rogers	04/07/2006
Sawdust	David Wojahn	04/06/2006
What Came to Me	Jane Kenyon	04/05/2006
One-Word Poem	David R. Slavitt	04/04/2006
Farewell to Yang, Who’s Leaving for Kuo-chou	Wang Wei	04/03/2006
Untitled Poem [Unslide the door]	Joshua Beckman	04/02/2006

Title

Author

Date

Wound

04/12/2006