Under dark pines
all is the color
of falling snow
the mountain path
already swathed in whiteness

♦

From Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude by Saigyo, translated by Meredith McKinney © 2021. Reprinted with permission of Shambhala Publications.

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