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.)     >