East window

East window

by W. S. Merwin

1999

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A collection of poems translated from various Asian languages. In For Ko Who Has Come Back from China, the 13th century Zen monk, Muso Soseki, wrote: "Don't say that / your wisdom and my ignorance / belong to opposing worlds / Look: China and Japan / but there are not / two skies."