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Kazue Shinkawa

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Our neighbor’s wife
has given birth to a lovely baby girl.
Why can’t you bear a child?
laments my husband who loves children.

I keep silent
and cook rice
mornings and evenings,
like this, pricking up my ears,
listening in the pot
to the prayers of the rice.

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Our neighbor’s wife
has given birth to a lovely baby girl.
Why can’t you bear a child?
laments my husband who loves children.

I keep silent
and cook rice
mornings and evenings,
like this, pricking up my ears,
listening in the pot
to the prayers of the rice.

Fragment

Our neighbor’s wife
has given birth to a lovely baby girl.
Why can’t you bear a child?
laments my husband who loves children.

I keep silent
and cook rice
mornings and evenings,
like this, pricking up my ears,
listening in the pot
to the prayers of the rice.
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