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Table of Contents

5 The Butterfly

7 Summer Night

9 While You Decline to Cry

11 The Old Pond

13 Autumn Moonlight

15 Dark-Bosomed Clouds

17 Pausing Between Clouds

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The Butterfly

The butterfly

perfuming its wings

fans the orchid

- Matsuo Basho

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Summer Night

Summer night -

even the stars

are whispering to each other.

- Isaa

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While You Decline to Cry

While you decline to cry,

high on the mountainside

a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.

- O no Yasumaro

11

The Old Pond

The old pond-

a frog jumps in,

sound of water.

- Matsuo Basho

13

Autumn Moonlight

Autumn moonlight--

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

- Matsuo Basho

15

Dark-Bosomed Clouds

Dark-bosomed clouds

pregnant with heavy thunder ...

the water breaks

- Michael R. Burch

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Pausing Between Clouds

Pausing between clouds

the moon rests

in the eyes of its beholders

- Matsuo Basho