(zumi)

People Say:

Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, Izumi Shikibu.
In This World by Izumi Shikibu In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.
"Nothing in the world is usual today. This is the first morning." - Izumi Shikibu
3 The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
Watching the moon / at dawn, / solitary, mid-sky, / I knew myself completely, / no part left out. Izumi Shikibu Sunbeams, May 2021