all around me day by day the grasses i love come into bloom
mi no mawari wa hi ni hi ni sukina kusa ga saku
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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Day by day the grasses he loves come into bloom around him. Not flowers from some prized flowerbed. Ringed by the blossoms of what people call weeds, the days pass. A life for which that alone is enough.