Izumi Shikibu (974? - 1034?)
translated from the Japanese by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
Watching the moon
at midnight,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.
From Women in Praise of the Sacred,
42 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women,
HarperCollins, 1995
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