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 we did while waiting for the rain	Afua Ansong	10/13/2022
Barnes & Noble, 1999	Jesús I. Valles	10/12/2022
From “Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts”	Carolina Ebeid	10/11/2022
A Blind Spot, Awash	Tobi Kassim	10/10/2022
My Life Is a Memory	Rafael Arévalo Martínez	10/09/2022
Lord, I Ask a Garden . . .	Alfonso Guillén Zelaya	10/08/2022
Angelica Root	Vanessa Angélica Villarreal	10/07/2022
The Art of Shooting in the Dark	Denice Frohman	10/06/2022
Wonder Wheel	Wo Chan	10/05/2022
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	10/04/2022

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10/13/2022