Green Water, Letter from Afar

What has been dark for a long time starts to become clear, and someone climbs along a river whose green water has settled. A letter arrives from a great distance, and the word we render as sacred literally names a numinous fungus, so its exact force is uncertain. By the close, the matter is completed through an extraordinary person.

Clarity is the thread that ties the four lines to Kichi, Good fortune, the grade the book prints. Darkness lifts, the water settles, word comes and someone of unusual ability finishes the thing.

Considered today, the poem describes a slow clearing in which the decisive help comes from outside the usual circle. Someone far off may see what those close by cannot.