the last day in Veliko-Tarnovo

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some spring-time snow

here, amidst flurrying cherry blossoms
it’s as though some spring-time snow
were falling and did not melt  

monk Soku (ca. 880)

spending the spring night in the foothills
I slept, and deep inside my dream
blossoms fell without cease

Ki no Tsurayuki  (872-945)

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