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traveling alone,
i try imitating
the guardian statue's mouth

- morinaka emiko

旅ひとり仁王の口を真似てみる

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meeting under
the promise to bear no child—
snow falling thick

- morinaka emiko

子を産まぬ約束で逢う雪しきり

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seagulls are seagulls,
I am I—
running around in panic

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

カモメはカモメ私は私逃げまどう

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stripping off her monpe work pants,
she let a man
slide inside

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

もんぺ脱ぎ捨てて男をもぐらせた

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along starry alleyways,
a beautiful cat
slips smoothly through

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

星の路地t猫美しくすり抜けて

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in your arms
fully becoming
a single flower

--Shinko Tokizane

腕の中　一本の花になりきる　時実新子

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cloth enduring
eighty years of
washing and fading

- Nobuko Inoue

八十年洗い晒しへ耐えた生地

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is peace merely
a dream seen
while asleep?

- Nobuko Inoue

平和とは眠りのの中に視る夢か

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before I realized it,
a woman sits
constrained

- Nobuko Inoue

気がつけば女は狭い坐りやう

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as though drawing
the soul from me—
the moon’s color

- Nobuko Inoue

魂を吸はるゝやうな月の色

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a lantern among cherry blossoms,
seeming as though
a narrator might appear

- Kasumi-no ASO (1893-1981)

出語りがあるかと思う桜の灯

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teaching the child
scallops, starfish,
and other shells

- Kasumi-no ASO (1893-1981)

帆立貝人手貝など子に教え

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fall seven times
rise eight—picking up
a pearl

- nobuko inoue (1884–1934)

七転び八起きに真珠拾い上げ

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meeting someone
of such clarity—
a cool day

- nobuko inoue (1884–1934)

澄みきつた人に出会つて涼しい日

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blue gathering—
a whale shark's
new year's day

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

青群れて甚兵衛鮫のお正月

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my house lies
deep, far back in
the owl's eye

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

私の家は梟の目のずっと奥

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flapping morning glories—
they won against
the typhoon

- shinko tokizane (1929–2007)

びらびらの朝顔台風に勝った

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a centipede,
living its whole life
in utter disgust

- Shinko Tokizane

一生をむかむか生きたむかでかな

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