Surprisingly cold.

I've been quiet for a long time, but I still do my Japanese lessons every day; I've been in the diamond league on Duolingo for 250 days straight now. A sentence from yesterday has stuck with me, in that I find it kind of poetic:

谷川の水驚くほど全て買った
tanigawa no mizu ha
odoroku hodo tsumetakatta

The syllabication is off, of course, but—

the water of the mountain stream—
surprisingly cold

I find that stark and delicious. Like a plum saved for breakfast. (How would one write it? Maybe add some, to 57577 it. #hmm)

This Is Just To Say
wm carlos williams, 1938

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold