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WORLD OF DEW: poems by issa

18 Saturday Nov 2017

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In this world

we walk on the roof of hell,

gazing at flowers.

The moon and the flowers,

forty-nine years,

walking around, wasting time.

Full moon:

my ramshackle hut

is what it is.

I’m going out,

flies, so relax,

make love.

Don’t worry, spiders,

I keep house

casually.

We humans–

squirming around

among the blossoming flowers.

The world of dew

is the world of dew,

And yet, and yet–

Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1827 / Japan)

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30 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Don’t worry, spiders,

I keep house

casually.

][][

Goes out,

comes back —

the loves of a cat.

][][

I’m going out,

flies, so relax,

make love.

][][


The Hungry Ghosts

Flowers scattering—

the water we thirst for

far off, in the mist

][][

No talent

and so no sin

a winter’s day

][][

This stupid world —

skinny mosquitoes, skinny fleas,

skinny children

][][

Last time, I think,

I’ll brush the flies

from my father’s face.

— Kobayashi “little cup of tea” Issa (from Robert
Hass’ The Essential Haiku, 1994)

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the mother that i’ll never know/ every time that i see the ocean/ every time —

KOBAYASHI ISSA

the color of emergency

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

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“We know that a peaceful world
cannot long exist, one-third rich
and two-thirds hungry.”

— Jimmy Carter (America)

This stupid world —-
skinny mosquitoes, skinny fleas,
skinny children.

—- Issa (Japan)

][][

Heft it by the pound.

Squeeze it and juice

seeps between your fingers.

They don’t say that we’re

made up of juice,

though, but water, but

it is the same thing.

Life in water,

summer water,

warm to the touch.

In Vegas the nights

were so warm it felt

as if you’d been born

three weeks ago.

What sea or river or

pool could rival that?

The joy in heat

is that you can get

out of it. Not

the frog in the pan.

Like food, when

we’re satiated

we stop.

Which makes us

part of the 1%.

Some of us get to eat.

Is pot roast the color

of emergency? No.

The blue-gun metal

shell of artillery.

The silver-white

of the bayonet.

The orange landmine.

The red coal glow

of the end of a cigarette,

peppering human skin.

A body, anybody, hefted

between two staggering

detainees is still 75% water.

But it isn’t water

that runs down

the leg, staining

your hands where you

held her, staining

the ground

with something

that will dry in the heat,

dry and dissolve.

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