minimal: NIGHT (poem) - Shuntaro Tanikawa - Japan - Poetry International
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夜
夜
どこからか
湯のたぎる音
 
微量の
毒は
薬
 
ヒトはヒトを
侵す
気づかずに
 
言葉なく
流れる
心
 
ヒトへ
闇へ
僅かな灯火へ
 
NIGHT
Night –
from somewhere comes
the sound of water boiling
 
a trace of
poison is
medicine
 
a person
violates another
unaware
 
without words
his heart
drifts
 
toward another
into darkness
toward faint torchlight
 
© 2002, Shuntaro Tanikawa
From: minimal
Publisher: Shichosha, Tokyo, 2002, 4783713235
 
 
 
 
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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