A PEBBLE

 

I've been ill for a long time,
and I was walking with my head stooped over
when I found a single stray pebble bathed in sunlight.



© Jūkichi Yagi
From: Kanashiki Shinto (Poor Believers)
Publisher: Nogikusha, Tokyo, 1928

©  Translation: 2008, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura

 

 

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