Inscribed on the Pavilion of Moon on the Water:  Two Poems

           1

    In the water is a moon gleaming like gold

     That I greedily watch at my open window deep into

each night;

    My sick eyes suddenly cause another to appear---

    A monkey's leaped into the blue ripples of my mind!

    2

    By the light of the moon by the water I sit in

meditation,

     A wide Palace of Cold soaking into smooth, blue grass;

     At midnight I rise, turn suddenly around,

     And find the perfect circle of moon in the heart of

the ripples.

GIDO SHUSHIN

Tr. David Pollack