ON THE DEATH OF MATSUO BASHÕ(1644-94)

The best thing for an itinerant

traveler, the sponge that

takes the landscape

in and gives out

poems, is to

halt and

cease.

A landscape

planted with words

and cultivated with

pens has its limits.

Let it be, gardener,

and become

the soil.

09.03.2023

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