[goes out comes back]

[conuly]

Goes out,
comes back—
the love life of a cat.


By Kobayashi Issa
Translated by Robert Hass

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52354/goes-out-comes-back

Comments

[marahmarie]

Ah yeah, ok. I wasn't comparing them either, just immediately casting my mind's eye...thattaway, I guess. Funny the random things that can trigger associations so quickly for me, sometimes.