Excerpt from “For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut”
by Takashi Hiraide
translated by Sawako Nakayasu
2008
Things that
rain,
and things that
grow.
They are all that hold my interest.
(Until the things that
rain
have
grown,
and the things that grow have poured.)
Things that
grow,
and things that
rain.
They are all that I desire.
(Until the things that
grow
cease
to grow, and the things that rain
no longer
rain
a single
drop
).