Yes, sweet love, it’s the days of living of ******* and flights of fancy; it’s the life when the moment is all there is with no care for the morrow and no memory of how we came here
and so sweet woman who is close hold me by my arm over your shoulder and hold me by my belt and you standing nearby, O woman just as sweet and just lovely carry my outer garment (you’ll have your turn with me later when this woman has had mine) I am not drunk as you can see and I am alive in the moment
and so you see time flows like the waterfall and life is smooth and copious and our thoughts are like wine in our blood pervasive, all-embracing, one no different from the other: O there is the beauty of the maple leaves there is the wonder of the waterfall and there is your beauty and there is my desire and so happily let’s allow life to flow so
nothing comes to this point O sweet beauties nothing passes from here and O sweet loves there is but the pleasure that we see here now what we see with all our bodies and mind
poem based on art by Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770). The Waterfall, ca. 1769. (Brooklyn Museum)