by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Laurel Rasplica Rodd

flying wing in wing
Language: English  after the Japanese (日本語) 
     flying wing in wing
 across the white clouds of the
     night sky   the wild geese
 go   their very number
 vivid beneath the autumn moon

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In Laurel Rasplica Rodd and Mary Catherine Henkenius, Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, Boston, MA : Cheng & Tsui, 1996


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