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
Wheeling Motel	Franz Wright	01/28/2018
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline]	Gertrude Stein	01/27/2018
Firing Squad	Ilya Kaminsky	01/26/2018
This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball	Brendan Constantine	01/25/2018
Funeral: For Us His Gold	Alessandra Lynch	01/24/2018
Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott’s “George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware”	Anaïs Duplan	01/23/2018
The Ghost	Frank Bidart	01/22/2018
[American Journal]	Robert Hayden	01/21/2018
Sonnet 92 [Behold that Tree, in Autumn’s dim decay]	Anna Seward	01/19/2018
There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry	Marianne Boruch	01/19/2018

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01/28/2018