Come Quickly | A Poem by Izumi Shikibu

April 10 - Here’s a poem today for National Poetry Month: “Come Quickly” by Izumi Shikibu, translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani from the collection “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Isumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan.” This is a lovely collection of poems that I highly recommend.