National Poetry Month
Apr. 21st, 2011 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhOn New Year's Day, watching it snow - Izumi Shikibu, trans. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Arantani
It seemed the plum trees
were already in bloom
but when I picked a branch
what fell- so much like flowers-
was snow.
It seemed the plum trees
were already in bloom
but when I picked a branch
what fell- so much like flowers-
was snow.
