Cherry Blossom Dreamscape №1
Poem for the Micro-Season—First Cherry Blossoms
The cherry trees were blooming
a cloud of sweetened pink
tethered to earth
with prosaic branches.
In my dream,
I walked alone
Grey bounded
In a stone-edged park glistening in the rain
A stone-clad tower rising into the mist
Beyond the crosswalk,
One tree stood alone
I thought I could plant two more
to keep it company
as I had planted all the others in decades past.
The fourth of the six spring seasons is called shunbun (春分) Spring Equinox in the traditional Japanese calendar. Each of the twenty-four seasons in the calendar is divided into three micro-seasons for a total of seventy-two.
The three micro-seasons of shunbun are:
March 21–25 Sparrows Start to Nest- suzume hajimete sukū 雀始巣
March 26–30 First Cherry Blossoms- sakura hajimete saku 櫻始開
March 31-April 4 Distant Thunder- kaminari sunawachi koe o hassu 雷乃発声
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Natalie
