Not by car,
not by plane—
by neither hay sled
nor rickety cart
—or even by Elijah’s fiery chariot!
You’ll never get farther than Bashō.
He got there by foot.
Olav H. Hauge, translated from the Norwegian
from The Dream We Carry:
Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge
(Copper Canyon Press)
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