Sudden Enlightenment after BUSON Yosa no
SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT
Cecity stumbled
stick through moonlight shaft tumbled
on me and laughed
7 March 1975 revised 28 December 2008 robi03_0043_buso01_0001 PHT_JXX
after BUSON Yosa no 1716_1784
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SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT
A blind man groping
through a brilliant shaft of moonlight, stumbled
into me - and laughed!
translator unknown
BUSON Yosa no 1716_1784
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