Wednesday, April 11, 2012

NPM: (it snowed the day her daughter died)

Why did you vanish
into empty sky?
Even the fragile snow,
when it falls,
falls in this world.
—Izumi Shikibu [974?-1034?]
tr. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani

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