minimal: A DAY (poem) - Shuntaro Tanikawa - Japan - Poetry International
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ひと日
ああ
ああと
烏が喚き
 
朝の
訃報に
安堵する
 
友人の
ひそやかな
妊娠
 
朽ちた
干菓子を
捨てて
 
己を
あやしむ
午後
A day
Crows cry
ahh,
ahh
 
At the news of a death
in the morning
I feel relieved
 
A friend is
discreetly
pregnant
 
I throw away
crumbled
pressed-sugar candies, and

I wonder about
Myself
this afternoon
© 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