over grass left to bloom as it will — butterflies
kusa wa saku ga mama no chōchō
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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Over grass left to bloom as it will, butterflies flutter and drift. Neither grass nor butterfly is bound to anyone's design. The unmeddled-with scene of an untended garden becomes, just as it is, a poem of spring.