alone
on this sultry night
face to face
with an old TV
flickering on and off
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
一人
この蒸し暑い夜に
面と向かっている
古いテレビに
チカチカする画面
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
To the Lighthouse: Jisei, Japanese Death Poems
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Thematically and religiously speaking, the death poem (jisei in Japanese)
is a genre of poetry that has historically developed in the literary
traditions o...
