“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
Kawase Hasui, Kishou Nishi-Izu, A view of Fuji from the Izu peninsula south of Tokyo, 1937

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
Kawase Hasui, Kishou Nishi-Izu, A view of Fuji from the Izu peninsula south of Tokyo, 1937

These are the Unicorn Days
Carved in gold and diamonds
from the mountains,
Molded in solid water
from the fairies’ well
Sang in choruses
by daffodils leaning on the feathered wings
of night eastern winds,
Claimed by a broken chunk of heart
that knows no sparse amounts
of Love…
Clustered green of untamed grasses
and feral blossoming storms
in the souls of plum flowers
Rage
until the fields breathe
the 100 names for Spring
and become
The Unicorn’s envy…

Art by Vincent van Gogh.