… 12 poems by Basho… i read about abandoned two year old children, tossed some food; horses eating hibiscus; the frost of old age; aging; darkening seas and wild ducks calling; years passing and more of the same; the mists of spring; that oaks are not interested in cherry blossoms; azaleas and women tearing codfish; drunken bees and peonies; that shepherd’s purse hides under hedges; that frogs create sound from water…