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  • Writer's pictureCatherine Cowell

Although the wind


Although the wind

blows terribly here,

the moonlight also leaks

between the roof planks

of this ruined house


by Izumi Shikibu

translated by June Hirschfield with

Mariko Aratani


I found it in a brilliant book called

The Poetry Pharmacy

by William Sieghart

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