Mono no awa re Compassion for things
spring arrives late
no one swats
the first mosquito
Essentiality
one rain––
his pond
my mosquitoes
Fueki ryuko Changing and unchanging
day breaks
rows of goslings
shooing mosquitoes
Equivalence
have you never seen snow, mosquito?
falling here
these apple blossoms…
Essentiality
born of water
moves like water
this new mosquito
Fuga no makoto Poetic Truth
making brothers
of us all,
one mosquito
Butsuga ichinyo Oneness
Hear it!
all the mosquitoes
one note!
Hosomi Slenderness
summer hermitage
one mosquito
to sing for me
Karumi Lightness
kitchen: 2AM
the mosquito and I
share a snack
Wabi
late, turning back
meeting all my
mosquitoes
Sabi
this drought
even the mosquito
is asking
Allusion
from ear to ear
the mosquito repeating, repeating…
“All glory is fleeting”
Kogo kizoku Awakening to the high, returning to the low
doomed! doomed!
this mosquito and I
can’t stop singing
Seeing
for you mosquito
small poems
small offerings
Perceiving
faithful mosquito
following, following
far from home
Knowing
in and out
of the falling light
the last mosquito
Kúkyo Emptiness
a gnat in one ear
a mosquito at the other
in between––nothing!
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