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For you,
I came out to the fields
to pick the first spring greens.
All the while, on my sleeves
a light snow falling.



From One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse (Penguin Classics). Copyright © 2008, 2018 by Peter MacMillan. Reprinted with the permission of the translator, Peter Macmillan. This poem appeared in the Poetry Society of America's Poems on Wheels program.