gently tipsy the leaves come fluttering down
horohoro yōte ko no ha furu
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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The mellow blur of being tipsy, and the leaves fluttering softly down — one mimetic word, horohoro, reaches across both the drunkenness and the falling, and the whole poem sways gently.