If Someone Asks by Ryokan

If someone asks
My abode
I reply:
"The east edge of
The Milky Way."

Like a drifting cloud,
Bound by nothing:
I just let go
Giving myself up
To the whim of the wind
	
      translated by John Stevens

~ from Art and Wonder, An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry, 
(Bullfinch Press, 1996)