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Moonlight slanting

Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
   a cuckoo crying.

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Translated by Robert Hass

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  • Ava Noire
    July 24, 2003
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    slanting, crying those words suggest a sadness. A falling of some sort.

    Beautifully detailed, I am liking Basho's work.