Set 12: Mondo de Insektoj

1.
Crickets
                              Yoshitada (twelfth century)/Japan

Way up in the hills,
where the blue woods are
and the lion-mint spreads
in the autumn shade
the crickets are crying:
they cry because
a season is passing,
however kind it has been,
or unkind,
like a curtain
drawn over the grass.


2.
Tohub
                              Hans Davidsohn (1887–1942)/German-Jewish

Three mini-men sing in the heights –
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