1. Dawn Little by little the chains of sunlight unlock themselves. 2. Think... how night spreads itself from star to star! 3. Life's provisions... light travels through dark tunnels. 4. Night falls... and with it grows the dreamweaving of insects. 5. In the waiting room shadows gradually lengthen the crowded queues... 6. Against the river's body faint mist... in the eyes of embryos dreams of birth-triumph. 7. When sun intensifies all footprints in the sand fade away... 8. On each petal of the rose clings my beloved's wounded pride. 9. One owl calls another to night's festival. And here, startled from sleep, I call only to myself. 10. It's getting late... perhaps every word is your reflection... who knows! 11. Even one who searches thoroughly on the brightest full moon and cannot find his own home must, in the darkest new moon's light, seek out another's toilet when pressed... 12. Curtains hung in the bedroom; each wall seems... between beloved and moon. 13. Winter trees every day little by little expand the sky... 14. Shadows of leaves sway this way and that, dance to the flute's melody... 15. Small in knowledge, large in faith— quite skilled in ignorance! 16. Even if I speed up this earth's rotation, what will be seen before... death? 17. In the spaces between stars lie fireflies' sanctuaries. 18. On the day of my funeral even if all the flowers of earth were brought to me, what use...!? 19. From the airplane window even tall buildings are dollhouses. 20. Which page of which book in my library contains what...what doesn't, the termites know it all.
Thought Bonsai: One Hundred Eight
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