Excerpt from “For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut”
2008
by Takashi Hiraide
translated by Sawako Nakayasu
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
(Until the things that grow cease to grow, and the things that rain no longer rain a single drop.)