the snake gourds hanging there are two
burasagatte iru karasuuri wa futatsu
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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On a withering vine, two snake gourds hang, red. The poem ends the instant he counts them — two. That much, and no more, somehow stays in the eye long afterward.