Posted in celebration of national poetry month. This poem, submitted by a reader, is a translation by Kenneth Rexroth of a an anonymous Japanese folk song. If you have a favorite poem (you’ve read or written), please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.

by Anonymous (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)

All day I hoe weeds.
At night I sleep.
All night I hoe again
In dreams the weeds of the day.