stillness — the bamboo shoots have all become bamboo
shizukesa, takenoko minna take ni natta
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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Once the bamboo shoots have all become bamboo, the thicket falls utterly still. The stillness after the momentum of the fast-growing season has passed. The pause of the comma after "stillness" becomes, just as it is, the breathing of the poem.