waking alone
from the talk with the girl
I met
in childhood dreams
church bells echo from afar
chants
of the ninety-nine percent
echo from afar --
counting winter stars
in my attic window
being a poet
how do you put food
on the table?
her words echo from afar
breaking this moonlit night
Red Lights, 9:2, July 2013
One Man's Maple Moon: Beast and Cherry Blossoms Tanka by Fumi Saito
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*English Original*
long dead
the bones of a beast
decaying tonight
I am nearly choked
as cherry blossoms are falling
*White Letter Poems*, 1998
Fumi Saito...