( via / painting by weldon kees via )

Pink backpack.

"Shelley, with Milton, has to be the most humorless poet in the English language." —Sunil Iyengar via

"I start to think about all the stated reasons..."

"a pheasant cries
in the temple room's
dead center"

Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826)
Tr. David G. Lanoue
Date of poem: 1818 via @evecastle.bsky.social

Once again.