"Cold water business"
Ko Un, Goya, Bashō, Gilbert, Niedecker
Ko Un (tr. from Korean by Sunny Jung and Hillel Schwartz):
Francisco Goya, in old age:
Aun aprendo.
[Still I’m learning.]
Matsuo Bashō, last poem (tr. from Japanese by Robert Hass):
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