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In the unmapped landscape inside the bottle

February 7, 2020May 22, 2020 ~ Walter Shandy ~ Leave a comment

From Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home (Burton Watson translator):

All on my own I’m happy
in the unmapped landscape
inside the bottle

my only friend
is this
wisteria cane

Last night
we stayed up talking
so late

that I’m afraid
I was overheard
by the empty sky

“It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random curiosities he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane” – prologue to Moby Dick

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