onto my tired leg a dragonfly settled
tsukareta ashi e tonbo tomatta
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Onto the tired leg he has flung out, a dragonfly settles. It knows nothing of a traveler's weariness or circumstances. To have been chosen, merely as a perch, is somehow a small gladness.