In thin shade
a camel that is fastened,
mumbling and mumbling, is eating things all day long
His tent is like a sky with snow,
hanging grey and dismal.
Without speaking the camel
keeps moving his mouth all day.
Murō Saisei [Murō Terumichi, also Terifumi] (1889 - 1962) Japan
Source: Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry Translated and compiled by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yūki Sawa, Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc, 1972
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