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
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	07/14/2010
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	07/13/2010
All the Whiskey in Heaven	Charles Bernstein	07/12/2010
Break of Day	John Donne	07/11/2010
Verses upon the Burning of our House	Anne Bradstreet	07/10/2010
Stet Stet Stet	Ange Mlinko	07/09/2010
Tell Me	Sara London	07/08/2010
this kind of fire	Charles Bukowski	07/07/2010
Marble Hill	Kazim Ali	07/06/2010
Donkey Carts and Desolation	Matthew Shenoda	07/05/2010

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07/14/2010