Someone passes,
And while I wonder
If it is he,
The midnight moon
Is covered with clouds. - MURASAKI SHIKIBU
That spring night I spent
Pillowed on your arm
Never really happened
Except in a dream.
Unfortunately I am
Talked about anyway. - LADY SUWO (11th-12th century)
Out of the darkness
on a dark path,
I now set out.
Shine on me,
moon of the mountain edge. - IZUMI SHIKIBU
BRIGHT HOUSE
It is a bright house;
not a single room is dim.
It is a house which rises high
on the cliffs, open
as a lookout tower.
When the night comes
I put a light in it,
a light larger than the sun and the moon.
Think
how my heart leaps
when my trembling fingers
strike a match in the evening.
I lift my breasts
and inhale and exhale the sound of love
like the passionate daughter of a lighthouse keeper.
It is a bright house.
I will create in it
a world no man can ever build. - FUKAO SUMAKO (1893-1974)
Sunday, 13 January 2008
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