In this world
love has no color–
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours

世中に
戀てふ色は
なけれども
深く身にしむ
物にぞありける

-Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 (b. 976)
elegantly translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani [Ink Dark Moon]

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