snapping clean, a bamboo leans among the bamboo
pokiri to orete take ga take no naka
1934–1936 · To the mountains, to the waters
Sōmokutō · Walking Mountains, Walking Waters (Sankō suikō)
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A bamboo, snapped clean off, leans just as it fell into the grove of bamboo. Broken, it is still among its fellows. The hushed stillness of the grove after that dry snapping sound.