one bloom on my desk opening at its leisure
kijō ichirin omomuro ni hiraku
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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A single bloom set on the desk slowly opens. Its unhurried flowering he watches without hurry. In the narrow space of a desktop flows a stretch of time for which that alone is enough.