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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