As I dig for wild orchids
in the autumn fields,
it is the deeply-bedded root
that I desire
not the flower.
--Izsumi Shikibu, trans. Jane Hirshfield.
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As I dig for wild orchids
in the autumn fields,
it is the deeply-bedded root
that I desire
not the flower.
--Izsumi Shikibu, trans. Jane Hirshfield.
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