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Cold night: the wild duck

Cold night: the wild duck,
sick, falls from the sky
   and sleeps awhile.
   

Translated by Robert Hass

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  • philophant
    December 12, 2003
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    I like it. "Sleeps awhile" is a good phrase. These poems are delightfully short, but the problem is, what to say about it? Good poem. He treats death very...casually, let's say. I like that.