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Tuesday, 1 January 2008

Happy 2008!

New Year’s morning—
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.

A huge frog and I
staring at each other,
neither of us moves.

Blossoms at night,
like people
moved by music[.]

Extracts from After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
by Robert Hass

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