Meditations in Winter: Issa: Wren at Dusk

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House Wren (Troglodytes aedon), Apache Springs Trail, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico: photo by S. King, 2007 (US National Park Service)



The wren is chirruping
But it grows dusk
Just the same.






Dusk from on board an Airbus A330: photo by mailer diablo, 2006

The wren is chirruping: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated by Reginald Horace Blyth