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Global Renku Memorial /
Taka-no-Za
Half Kasen: Okina Grows Mellow
October 14, 2001 at Basho-an
Led by Kifu Futagami
Translated by Kris Kondo and Hiroshi Tamura
as Okina
grows mellow
so does
the round gourd
..........Kifu
Futagami
like the moon
seven smiling faces
.....Niji
Fuyuno
faintly cold
a ferryboat
shaking and rolling
.....Hiroshi
Tamura
on the wall an ad
with a big "M"
.....Tateshi
Tsukamoto
hills heavy with
May rain
and washing
that never dries
.....Beth
Lindsay
a lizard runs
at full speed
under the floor
.....Yoshiko
Uchiyama
the media
spreading news of terrorists
dizzily
......Jinshiro
Hatsuzawa
waiting by the
phone
for the call that she is safe
.....Kris
Kondo
Othello with a
thick beard
his wife should
be protected
.....Niji
Fuyuno
a red bandana
on a wayside Buddha
.....Yoshiko
Uchiyama
planet hopping
which station is
next?
.....Kris
Kondo
plowing the winter
field
with the bow moon
.....Kifu
Futagami
a barrel full of
local sake
pulled out in front of
the hawk hunting screen
.....Yoshiko
Uchiyama
at the Parihaka
massacred
screams of Maori*
......Beth
Lindsay
on the blackboard
strongly written words
hard to erase
.....Hiroshi
Tamura
inside the eye
patch
the sky is getting bright
.....Niji
Fuyuno
blossom rafts
sped away in the flow
of the river
......Jinshiro
Hatsuzawa
a spring cloud
strides
over mount Adatara
.....Tateshi
Tsukamoto
*Note: about 130
years ago, the New Zealander Maori were massacred by the English invaders at
Parihaka. |
