"Though quaint allusions, vague and undefin'd,
Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind;--"

--Anon, in: A Collection of English Poems 1660-1800, ed R S Crane (1932)


'choosing a path
overgrown with wind-grasses
and weeds,
today I walk
for as long as the sun shines'

--Yuko Kawano, Vital Forces (tr A Fielden & A Yuhki, 2003)