Part 5

AT FURUE IN RAIN GRAY WATER AND GRAY SAND... PICTURE WITHOUT LINES BUSON OH SORRY TOM-CAT BIGGER BLACKER KNIGHTS OF LOVE HAVE KNOCKED YOU OUT! SHIKO THE OLD FISHERMAN UNALTERABLY INTENT... COLD EVENING RAIN BUSON WHILE I TURNED MY HEAD THAT TRAVELER I'D JUST PASSED ... MELTED INTO MIST SHIKI p. 47 VISITING THE GRAVES ... TROTTING ON TO SHOW THE WAY ... OLD FAMILY DOG ISSA WILL WE MEET AGAIN HERE AT YOUR FLOWERING GRAVE... TWO WHITE BUTTERFLIES? BASHO SO ENVIABLE... MAPLE-LEAVES MOST GLORIOUS CONTEMPLATING DEATH SHIKO SHOCKING ... THE RED OF LACQUERED FINGERNAILS AGAINST A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM CHIYO-NI p. 48 DRY CHEERFUL CRICKET CHIRPING, KEEPS THE AUTUMN GAY ... CONTEMPTUOUS OF FROST BASHO DEEPEN, DROP, AND DIE MANY-HUED CHRYSANTHEMUMS... ONE BLACK EARTH FOR ALL RYUSUI BEFORE BOILED CHESTNUTS CROSS-LEGGED LAD IS SQUATTING... CARVED WOODEN BUDDHA ISSA DEFEATED IN THE FRAY BY BIGGER BATTLERS FOR LOVE... TOM-CAT SEEKS A MOUSE SHIKO p. 49 ASKING THEIR ROAD... SEVEN YELLOW BAMBOO HATS ALL TURNED TOGETHER ANON. TORCHES! COME AND SEE THE BURGLAR I HAVE CAPTURED... OH! MY ELDEST SON! SOKAN AUTUMN MOSQUITOES BUZZ ME, BITE ME ... SEE, I AM LONG PREPARED FOR DEATH SHIKI NICE: WILD PERSIMMONS... AND NOTICE HOW THE MOTHER EATS THE BITTER PARTS ISSA p. 50 GRAY MARSH, BLACK CLOUD FLAPPING AWAY IN AUTUMN RAIN LAST OLD SLOW HERON

LAST OLD SLOW HERON ANON. FIRST WHITE SNOW OF FALL JUST ENOUGH TO BEND THE LEAVES OF FADED DAFFODILS BASHO WHAT A GORGEOUS ONE THAT FAT SLEEK HUGE OLD CHESTNUT I COULD NOT GET AT ... ISSA NONE BROKE THE SILENCE... NOR VISITOR NOR HOST ... NOR WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM RYOTA p. 51 IF YOU WERE SILENT FLIGHT OF HERONS ON DARK SKY ... OH! AUTUMN SNOWFLAKES! SOKAN CHILLING AUTUMN RAIN... THE MOON, TOO BRIGHT FOR SHOWERS, SLIPS FROM THEIR FINGERS TOKUKU RAINY-MONTH, DRIPPING ON AND ON AS I LIE ABED... AH, OLD MAN'S MEMORIES! BUSON NOVEMBER SUNRISE... UNCERTAIN, THE COLD STORKS STAND ... BARE STICKS IN WATER KAKEI p. 52 FROM DARK WINDY HILLS VOICES DRIVING WEARY HORSES ... SHOUTING OF THE STORM KYOKUSUI SLANTING LINES OF RAIN... ON THE DUSTY SAMISEN A MOUSE IS TROTTING BUSON OH FORMER RENTER I KNOW IT ALL, ALL ... DOWN TO THE VERY COLD YOU FELT ISSA GRAY MOOR, UNMARRED BY ANY PATH ... A SINGLE BRANCH ... A BIRD ... NOVEMBER ANON. p. 53 LONELY UMBRELLA PASSING THE HOUSE AT TWILIGHT... FIRST SNOW FALLING SOFT YAHA CARVEN GODS LONG GONE... DEAD LEAVES ALONE FOREGATHER ON THE TEMPLE PORCH BASHO FIVE OR SIX OF US REMAIN, HUDDLED TOGETHER... BENT OLD WILLOW-TREES KYORA PLUME OF PAMPAS GRASS TREMBLING IN EVERY WIND... HUSH, MY LONELY HEART ISSA p. 54 TEA-WATER, TIRED WAITING WHILE WE WATCHED THE SNOW... FROZE ITSELF A HAT SOKAN COLD FIRST WINTER RAIN... POOR MONKEY, YOU TOO COULD USE A LITTLE WOVEN CAPE

BASHO WINTER RAIN DEEPENS LICHENED LETTERS ON THE GRAVE... AND MY OLD SADNESS ROKA COLD WINTER SHOWER .. SEE ALL THE PEOPLE RUNNING ACROSS SETA BRIDGE! JOSO p. 55 OLD WEARY WILLOWS... I THOUGHT HOW LONG THE ROAD WOULD BE WHEN YOU WENT AWAY BUSON NO OIL TO READ BY ... I AM OFF TO BED BUT AH!... MY MOONLIT PILLOW BASHO DESCENDING SEAWARD FAR-OFF MOUNTAIN WATERFALL... WINTER NIGHTS ARE STILL KYOKUSUI ALL HEAVEN AND EARTH FLOWERED WHITE OBLITERATE... SNOW ... UNCEASING SNOW HASHIN