Mystic Moon Appears

Boredom departs as / Moon appears mid pear branches / Mystic evening dew

Ovid ex ponto 4.8.55

"Di quoque carminibus,/ si fas est dicere,/ fiunt." wrote Publius Ovidius Naso

my translation: Even the gods, I dare say (if one be allowed to say), were created in poems.

Exosinan Clouds

troppo rains today / blown over from China seas / exosinan clouds

Rushmore Naught

 rainy Sunday night / seldom street traffic, swishing / forward into naught

October squirrel

drunken squirrel / sleeping it off on a branch today / figs fermenting

October Noon

palmate bamboo / digit shadows dancing scene / chiaroscuro