Coins from mossy shrine:
A few less wouldn’t matter
To sightless Jizo
Taken along the way
Enough for noodles later
These corroded coins
Three times in one day
I meet a thoughtful stranger
Along looping trails
Where trail signs end
A stream-side corridor leads
Through bright-green mosses
Now you tell me!
Sign posted deep in the woods
“Watch out for bears! ”
No watcher but me
As coins jingle in my pocket
It doesn’t seem right
Tokens of value
Picked up there then put down here
A deserted shrine
Apr.3,2017
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