Lyrical Partings


If you would know
of something evanescent
as the illusions
of dew, of dreams, and of froth,
there is this life of mine.

儚さは
梅雨夢泡の
幻の
他をたずねば
我が身なりけり

photograph: Vincent Trivett
poem: Saiokuken Sôchô (1448-1532)
translation: Mack Horton
The Journal of Sôchô
Stanford University Press, 2002
www.sup.org

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