1.

Goodbye fire, goodbye coffee
transform me into you    and you will disappear into air

flip the construction site over    make the rain fall on the grass
in Tokyo   cats sleep   feeling cold
and you observe me   disappearing into the train


2.

If a prairie can be immortal

in a box   the gray of a pipa
boiling like the sea   a camera

if I am a telephone    I cry
fall silent    sit on a mountain looking at myself

burnt like ashes
like a shivering star


3.

The Chinese drink wine   leave home
use a compass to point to themselves

morning   their bodies begin to turn warm
turn into steam   into quicksilver
carving out mushrooms   wild vegetables   and spaghetti

and we are all the cooled sweat of passion