Sandy Tracey

“My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...”
― Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

“Year by year,
the monkey's mask
reveals the monkey.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“Ah, it is spring,
Great spring it is now,
Great, great spring -
Ah, Great -”
― Matsuo Bashō

“Had I crossed the pass
Supported by a stick,
I would have spared myself
The fall from the horse.”
― Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches