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.夕霧や馬の覚し橋の穴
yûgiri ya uma no oboeshi hashi no ana
night mist--
the horse remembers
the bridge's hole
Or: "holes in the bridge." About this haiku, Kai Falkman writes, "The entire picture is ... enveloped in mist as in a Japanese ink drawing. And the hole in the bridge appears to us solely through the horse's memory of it"; Understanding Haiku: A Pyramid of Meaning (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2002) 82.
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