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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Clouds Come from Time to Time


(Snow in the Countryside, 1909, woodcut by Kamisaka
Sekka, 1862-1942, Japanese artist)

Clouds come from time to time
and bring to me a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.

~ Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), Japanese master of the haiku, whose work would later influence Western poets like Ezra Pound