For the Tsushima circle
waterfowl of our parting bobbing up and sinking down
owakare no mizudori ga uitari shizundari
1936 · The long journey east
Sōmokutō · From Journey to Journey (Tabi kara tabi e)
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A parting poem for his haiku friends in Tsushima. At the waterside where they see him off, waterfowl bob up and dive down. In place of words of farewell, he offers only the innocent motion of the birds. The loneliness, left unspoken, comes through all the more.