 slow to part shadows overtake us on the evening moor |
 calm lagoon over the moon's image a passage of birds |
 a bird departs following its shadow autumn at an end |
 in the color and shape of a crow darkness settles |
 swift to shore white-crested waves return like cranes |
 herons depart leaving lonely the inlet sky |
 lighting the lamp voices of insects surround my shadow |
 an early moon breeze also cools the cicadas' voice |
 frogs unheard in a dry streambed silence flows |
 telling the beads insects mingle with a praying voice |
 the silence coming unraveled cicadas crying |
 night deepens the big dipper spills cold white dew |
 fireflies scatter like sparks struck from the full moon |
 the slow day footsteps on a bridge dwindle then cease |
 summer is gone countless white wings take sudden flight |
 traveler's moon departing in dusk the gypsy moth |
 a hazy moon where faintly calling wildgeese disappear |
 last sunray a single white peony lights the dark |
 a loon cries once dusk seeps into the water's edge |
 between hills sunrays unfold a red pleated fan |
 evening dunes west wind carries the shadow of a bird |
 summer waves, gull voices rusty in salt spray |
 summer half gone, the shadow of a crow divides the sea |
 evening shallows by a crow reflection, an early star |
 wind dies, clouds enter stillness in an endless sea |
 adding our voices to those of insects we part on the moor |
 herons away in the stream edge, clouds increase |
 chilly moonlight in the stone lantern a cricket cries |
 sun freezing a crane cry turns waves to ice |
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