Absolutely Basho
how slow it lets
a bee emerge from its pistils' depths ~
the peony
[being theft being
GOTCHA snap-(ped in the act):
translated summer]
a retina retainer
perching on the language:
a snatch at memory,
a not now stop
--
David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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