Poets of Kyoto

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e Story They lived in a small village surrounded by bamboo and shallow ponds where afternoons passed slowly without anyone paying much attention to the time. In the mornings, a few of them gathered near the water with notebooks and cups of tea that usually went cold before anyone finished them. They wrote about ordinary things—the sound of rain collecting on leaves, someone walking past in wooden sandals, the circles spreading across the pond after a stone disappeared into it. People kept writing things down as if they were trying to hold onto small parts of the day before evening arrived and everything quietly folded back into darkness.