Crossroad Vertigo

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APRIL ARRIVES BY NIGHT

--Fukushima Daiichi 2011-20??

Copeland Morris
Apr 11, 2021
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Tohoku in snowThe daffodils collapseLying flat one upon the other.From the fingernail moon you stoleA kiss, April, as you arrivedBy night. Haven't you revealedThe secret of a foxTo whom you are partial, or whatFavor the rain brings?You laugh, thinking you can getAway with no orientation, claimingNo dependents, like a ghost who can beUnburdened. So where, in this desertedTeahouse, are those who serve and gather?  Here you are, April, in the plowed furrow,Having stolen away to the fields,Your brow heavy with grief for Tarukawa,Who killed himself over his row of cabbages.

Tohoku in snow
The daffodils collapse
Lying flat one upon the other.
From the fingernail moon you stole
A kiss, April, as you arrived
By night. Haven't you revealed
The secret of a fox
To whom you are partial, or what
Favor the rain brings?
You laugh, thinking you can get
Away with no orientation, claiming
No dependents, like a ghost who can be
Unburdened. So where, in this deserted
Teahouse, are those who serve and gather?

Here you are, April, in the plowed furrow,
Having stolen away to the fields,
Your brow heavy with grief for Tarukawa,
Who killed himself over his row of cabbages.

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