In illness · two poems
lying down, getting up leaves keep falling
netari okitari ochiba suru
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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A poem headed 'in illness.' He lies down, gets up, lies down again. Beyond that repetition, the trees go on shedding their leaves. The time of a body in sickness and the time of the falling leaves flow at the same pace.