new year

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“Year’s end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.”

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source: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), 59.

medium: Poetry

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.”

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source: “Little Gidding,” in The Waste Land and Other Poems (New York: Penguin, 2003), xxi.

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“With a hat on my head
And straw sandals on my feet,
I met on the road
The end of the year.”

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source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches (New York: Penguin, 1966), 60.

medium: poetry