This nor This is not That and not I
Amazing syntactic twist unfolds round a series of negations marking transitoriness and ending with endurance of the self...
This is not the moon,Translated by Kenneth Rexroth from Ariwawa No Narihira, collected in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese.
Nor is this the spring,
Of other springs,
And I alone
Am still the same
And so for day 2122
04.10.2012