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dawn glow, dusk glow — nothing to eat

asayake yūyake taberu mono ga nai

1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)

Notes

The dawn glow is beautiful, the dusk glow too. But there is nothing to eat. A poem that merely sets the sky's splendor beside the emptiness of the table has a peculiar brightness — half comic, half blunt to the bone.

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