David Birkett/England

Autumn Interim

The last, best embers

  Of the summer’s heat

     Are in September’s gift.

     A gentle, yellow thrift,

   Filtered by depleted

Trees. The air remembers.

NAMBARA Jushi/Japan

Citrus

We are very different, but not completely different,

It' s enough if we have a little bit something in common,

"Isn't this good?"

"Yes, it's very good!"

We peel a delicious citrus and say, "Wow, it's so sour!"

It'll be nice if we think each other's face is lovely.

Yuko Minamikawa Adams/United Kingdom

Avocados

Avocados

Your avocado is sanguine.

It believes it can ripen 

even in a cold room.

It cannot wait to be cut

and expose its flesh to you.

Yasushi Ikeda/Japan

Umbrella

Under an umbrella is a shade of silence.

Ease of no need to talk about trifles,

Free from the task to think about whatnot.

Receiving what comes from the sky,

And letting it fall softly,

Is this a kind of religious deed?