Snow Memory

Homage to Basho 1

Snow Memory

Near stays far away
infant blooms white bloodroot spring
mother gone before

Dead Child's Mother

Snow load bows bamboo
to touch the ground, woman's bent
woe world upside down

Wisdom Fruit

My rage is all tears
bitter sour wisdom fruit
hope is not all done



("Dead Child's Mother" is my version after Andrew Fitzsimmons' translation of  Ba…