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hushed, a butterbur bud — let me rest here

hissori fuki no tō koko de yasumō

1939 · The last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)

Notes

By the roadside a butterbur bud pokes up, hushed and quiet. Spotting it, he decides to rest right here. The lightness of needing no reason to rest but a single butterbur bud. A poem like a small rendezvous with spring, kept in the still-cold air of early spring.

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