Sandy Tracey

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.”
― Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

“If I had the knack
I'd sing like
Cherry flakes falling”
― Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

“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