Sublime

tatami.

Sinfonietta

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

colloquial,

zelkova tree

and she looks into my eyes as if trying to catch the image of a minnow that has darted across the pool of a limpid spring.

Streaming in through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.