bush clover, susuki grass — today's road
hagi ga susuki ga kyō no michi
1936 · The long journey east
Sōmokutō · From Journey to Journey (Tabi kara tabi e)
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The road he walks today has bush clover in bloom and plumes of miscanthus swaying. That alone makes it a good day, as good as settled. The brevity of merely stacking flower names carries both the sense of a road going endlessly on and the lightness of an autumn morning.