Don Wentworth is the editor of one of my all time favorite literary magazines, LILLIPUT, not to mention the excellent blog Issa’s Untidy Hut.
Check out his recent comparison of Ikkyū and Kerouac at http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/
Butterfly by Hokusai:
The lotus flower
Is sustained by mud;
This single dewdrop,
Just as it is,
Manifests the real body of truth.
Ikkyū
translated by John Stevens
My butterfly came
to sit in my flower,
Sir Me
Jack Kerouac
