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have I a body?

Have I a body or have I none?

Am I who I am or am I not?

Pondering these questions,

I sit leaning against the cliff while the 

    years go by,

Till the green grass grows between my feet

And the red dust settles on my head,

And the men of the world, thinking me dead,

Come with offerings of wine and fruit

   to lay by my corpse.

-- Han-Shan, tr. by Burton Watson

hotoke ni wa

hotoke ni wa
sakura no hana o
tatematsure
waga nochi no yo o
hito toburawaba


When gone in death,
I'll take cherry blossoms
as your rite for me . . .
if any wishes to make memorial here
for me in my life over there

-- Saigyō; tr. William R. LaFleur

Yakushi Nyorai

I Shall Be Released

Breasts -- Gary Snyder

That which makes milk can't help but concentrate
out of the food of the world
right up to the point where we suck it,
poison, too ...


Gary Snyder, Axe Handles


Breasts -- Gary Snyder

the decline of Japanese culture