A butterfly —
What dream
is making your wings flutter?
Butterfly —
you also get mad
some days.
Even the butterfly —
voiceless
Buddhist service.
In mid-flight
the butterfly returns
to the pines of Shiogoshi Shrine
What the butterfly
wants to say —
only this movement of its wings.
(Kaga no Chiyo)
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