tarashikomi style

Tweetspeak poets at the MET Japanese art exhibit…

 

gold fold-screen panel

graceful brushstrokes of mottled ink

lone tree jags bare sky

artful monk desires fuyu—

persimmon,  red-orange ripe

 

*note: persimmon’s Latin name means “food of the gods”

 

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by Sakai Hoitsu, 1816