As certain as color
Passes from the petal,
Irrevocable as flesh,
The gazing eye falls through the world. - The Poetess Ono No Komachi (translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese.)
Passes from the petal,
Irrevocable as flesh,
The gazing eye falls through the world. - The Poetess Ono No Komachi (translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese.)