flopping down flat on my back — blue sky
korori nekorobeba aozora
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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Flop down flat and the blue sky fills the whole space above your eyes. That is all the poem is, yet the pleasure of trusting your back to the ground comes straight through. It may be the most luxurious hour in a life of owning nothing.