Monday, April 20, 2020

 

Happiness

Tachibana Akemi (1812-1868), excerpt from "Happiness Is When," tr. Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), p. 414:
Happiness is when
you make some tea
and stuff
a big round cake
in your mouth

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:26 AM


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