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Poem

Shinjiro Kurahara

A Secret Code

What is that coming through
the wrong end of time?
A secret code from the future.
But it is not from human beings
or from a non-existent God.
 
Under the abstract sky,
where the distant desert is gradually dyring out,
the last butterfly
is sending it, clinging
to the single remaining grass blade on earth.

暗号

暗号

あの 時間を逆につたわってくるものは何だろう
未来からの暗号
あれは しかし 人間のそれではない
もちろん ありもしない神なんかでもない
 
あそこの砂漠の
だんだん乾燥してゆく 抽象的な空の下で
地上にのこされたたった一本の草にすがって
最後の蝶が発信しているのだ
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A Secret Code

What is that coming through
the wrong end of time?
A secret code from the future.
But it is not from human beings
or from a non-existent God.
 
Under the abstract sky,
where the distant desert is gradually dyring out,
the last butterfly
is sending it, clinging
to the single remaining grass blade on earth.

A Secret Code

What is that coming through
the wrong end of time?
A secret code from the future.
But it is not from human beings
or from a non-existent God.
 
Under the abstract sky,
where the distant desert is gradually dyring out,
the last butterfly
is sending it, clinging
to the single remaining grass blade on earth.
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