Tanka VI
And now Spring has come Blossoming up my garden. I alone unchanged. Moving in my house of Autumn. One leaf alone saves a tree.
Lewis Alexander
And now Spring has come Blossoming up my garden. I alone unchanged. Moving in my house of Autumn. One leaf alone saves a tree.
Spring arrives in the speaker’s garden, but he doesn’t feel part of it. Everything around him blooms and renews, yet he says “I alone unchanged,” as if the season has skipped him.
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