It makes no sense!
– to get entangled again
after so much time!
In the air,
the dangling end
of a broken
spider’s thread.

Tonna

from the book Just Living: Poems and prose by the Japanese monk Tonna

translated by Steven D. Carter


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Further quotes from the book Just Living:

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