Ono no Komachi: “How much longer must I carry this body of grief?”
“How much longer must I carry this body of grief,” Ono no Komachi laments. I hear her, though I do not see “the living grow fewer, the dead increase” yet....
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Ono no Komachi, “Untitled;” Seamus Heaney, “Sloe Gin”
Komachi tells of a tree burdened by its memories. “The pine tree,” she says, has “branches [which] lean towards the ground:” Untitled On...