minimal: AND THEN (poem) - Shuntaro Tanikawa - Japan - Poetry International
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そして
夏になれば
また
蝉が鳴く
 
花火が
記憶の中で
フリーズしている
 
遠い国は
おぼろだが
宇宙は鼻の先
 
なんという恩寵
人は
死ねる
 
そしてという
接続詞だけを
残して
AND THEN
When it is summer
again
cicadas cry
 
fireworks are
frozen
in my memory
 
a distant country is
hazy, but
the Cosmos is right in front of my nose
 
what divine grace —
a man
can die
 
leaving behind
just a conjunction:
and then
© 2002, Shuntaro Tanikawa
From: minimal
Publisher: Shichosha, Tokyo, 2002, 4783413235
 
 
 
 
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© Translation: 2011, Takako U. Lento
From: The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009
Publisher: Cornell University, Ithica, New York, 2011, 1050-2955