Glass Window Tanka
sickroom
the glass door
I peer through —
can see sparrows
flying to the little pine
shut in the sickroom
the glass window
winter sun shining in —
lucky buttercup
blooming
morning and night
ueno woods lie across
the glass window —
I'll never be
tired of seeing
shut in for winter —
clouds cleared
in the glass door,
and I can see
tabi socks drying
crystal, glass door
I look through —
the house across, the roof
I can see
shepherd's purse blooming
thought I'd see
snow — the glass
in the glass window
clouded, I did not
see snow
out the window
I can see
even insects —
panes of crystal glass
are miracles
shut in the sickroom
out the window
the glass window
on the clothesline
I can see a crow cawing
crow perched
on the line —
does it look through
the glass door,
see me writing and caw
always lying
down — O, blessings
to you who put in
glass for me,
crippled here
crystal carriage
in the piling
snow —
I don't think I'll go
to the silver fields
glass put in,
waiting for snow —
tomorrow I'll see
snow piled
on the trees
dawn, outside
I see the snow —
someone
wiped dew
from the glass
Ugly Duckling Presse
2024
