Shundo David Haye

Zen Priest

I loathe the twin seas
Of being and not being
And long for the mountain
Of bliss untouched by
The changing tides.

(Anonymous, Manyoshu, from One Hundred More Poems From The Japanese, tr. Kenneth Rexroth

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