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Now I'll read you a
few from "Daitokuji."

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This one is "for Kobori-san."

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"Closed in your garden,
where the lost wheel shines,

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the heart-pulled arrows
lie, covered with moss.

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Stone unlit lanterns
beneath ancient shrines

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insist silence be green
to scroll its shrines.

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We drink cold tea, while
centuries toss our happy words

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into their wordless lines."

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Now, we have "Tea in Ryoko-in."

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Mu Ch'i had six
persimmons for his mind.

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No one spoke of it.

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Kobori-san folded
time's orange napkin,

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whisked a green tea into the
Buddhist grail, time's tea

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bowl.

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We, on our cushions, smiled.

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Cool wind grazed
through the door.

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Mu Ch'i, with artless art,
had plucked his fruits out

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of a white eternity.

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In smoke, he outlined
them and left.

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Time set, a waterfall
not falling.

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Were we alive?

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We saw a white hibiscus
lay on the iron hearth.

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"Kurihara-san playing
his bamboo flute."

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It is as pure as starlight
breathed into a silver thread,

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as tender as the west wind
teaching a forest love

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song to a young bird.

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The winter-dried leaf still
dangles, like the world to

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Like the world through time.

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Its rain seen tree bear
of the otherwise children

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who eloped with Autumn.

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I watch, recalling how
one foot without a shell

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contains the universe
as its gift, an almond.

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Our welcome has not come.

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This is that the
true jewel, temple.

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Thunder was the third gift.

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Shinju-an sat, politely spoke,
drank tea, gazed over pine,

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moss gardens, old stone wells.

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Time pleasures roamed
the mural room.

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I smiled when
thunder bowed away,

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not Shinju-an Thunder
is his student.

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What moves?

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Lightning, thieves, rabbits?

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Fleas, flies,
fantasies, not time.

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Thoughts pursued.

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In my garden, rocks dream.

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Pine needles hold their
raindrops like belief.

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Butterflies flutter, do I?

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It's hard to catch them
moving when I move.

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I hope you don't mind, I'm
going to read it again.

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But this is your move.

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What moves?

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Lightning, thieves, rabbits?

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Fleas, flies, fantasies.

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Not time.

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Thoughts pursued.

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In my garden, rocks dream.

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Pine needles hold their
raindrops like belief.

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Butterflies flutter, do I?

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It's hard to catch them
moving when I move.

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We are four in the sand garden.

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You, I, Friday
star, and full moon.

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Night widens its
white braid basket.

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We drop into it,
our white words.

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Research on the smile.

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When the near is
far, never questions

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what is in the middle.

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Grasshopper leaping over, smile.

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Spy riding on a leaf,
flirting, leach.

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Most ancient traveler
from inner space,

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you sit on the poet's knee.

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Light down the puppy's tail,
find sorrows crack, make wealth

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the comedy, wisdom a wink.

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Bring wings for
every cliff's fall.

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