I open up the eyes
of the fading past
trapped between the four walls
of my rented room
April 2011 issue of Four and Twenty
One Man's Maple Moon: Color of Love Tanka by Izumi Shikibu
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*English Original*
in this world
love has no color --
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours
*The Ink Dark Moon*, 1990
Izumi Shikibu
*Chinese Trans...
