"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

19 December 2010

Izumi Shikibu


"Although the wind blows fiercely here,
the moonlight also shines
through the roof planks
of this ruined house."

"Watching the moon,
at dawn,
solitary,
midsky,
i knew myself completely,
no part left out."