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
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	06/11/2011
My Mother Was No White Dove	Reginald Shepherd	06/10/2011
The Needle	Jennifer Grotz	06/09/2011
The Dance	Humberto Ak’abal	06/07/2011
Ghosts That Need Reminding	Dana Levin	06/07/2011
We Build a Barn And Read Reader’s Digest	Tomaž Šalamun	06/06/2011
The Sun Has Long Been Set	William Wordsworth	06/04/2011
On Anti-Biography	Will Alexander	06/03/2011
A Short History of the Apple	Dorianne Laux	06/02/2011
Almost Sixty	Jim Moore	06/01/2011

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06/11/2011