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This Moth Saw Brightness
(1763 - 1827 / Kashiwabara / Japan)

This Moth Saw Brightness

Poem By Kobayashi Issa

This moth saw brightness
in a woman's chamber--
burnt to a crisp.


Translated by Robert Hass

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...........an amazing and sad write ★


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