FROM JANE

Please send greetings and well-wishes, a poem or two to Edith Shiffert (poet, translator, long time Kyoto resident). Now 91, she has been hospitalized following a broken leg and would welcome correspondence (or visitors) in English.
Edith Shiffert
A-211, Ohara Kinen Byoin
164 Ide, Ohara, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 601-1246
JAPAN
(Tel 075-744-3121)
A few verses, from “A Grasshopper” (PATHWAYS 2005, White Pine Press):

Still ascending
on mud, withered leaves, bright leaves –
the mountain path.

In the sunlight
Each pine cone
Glistening.

On undisturbed snow
No one is walking,
Tomorrow it will melt.

(Written by Jane Wieman. Tel 075-881-2278, Fax 075-861-6885)