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This poem is taken from PN Review 74, Volume 16 Number 6, July - August 1990.

Pine-trees in Mist T.J.G. Harris

(after the pair of six-fold screens painted by Hasegawa Tohaku, 1539-1610)

What conceals, reveals depths drawn
  open by trees, half-hidden trunks
plunged in mist: they thrust from it,
  the unfigured bass, rise to the abrupt
clarity of pine-needles that declare
  no more than themselves in air.
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