Poem
Makoto Ooka
FRUITS OF LIGHT
The hemispheres of your chestrest on my hands far off on a distant sea
So heavy these fruits made of light!
A thorn, you pierce the lining
of my insides slip within
Distance makes you
overflow inside me
Absence makes you
come to live in my heart
Deep at night you became
eighty four thousand stars
pierced my dreams passed through me
And I watched through the cracked glass
as the eighty four thousand stars
shot through you, scattered, and flew in bits across the sky
From: Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets
Publisher: Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995
Publisher: Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995
光のくだもの
光のくだもの
きみの胸の半球が とほい とほい海のうへでぼくの手に載ってゐる
おもい おもい 光でできたくだものよ
臓腑の壁を茨のとげのきみが刺し きみが這ふ
遠さがきみを ぼくのなかに溢れさせる
不在がきみを ぼくの臓腑に住みつかせる
夜半に八万四千の星となつて 夢をつんざき
きみがぼくを通過したとき
ひび割れたガラス越しにぼくは見てゐた 星の八万四千が
きみをつらぬき 微塵に空へ飛び散らすのを
© 1978, Makato Ooka
Audio recorded at Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, 1985
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FRUITS OF LIGHT
The hemispheres of your chestrest on my hands far off on a distant sea
So heavy these fruits made of light!
A thorn, you pierce the lining
of my insides slip within
Distance makes you
overflow inside me
Absence makes you
come to live in my heart
Deep at night you became
eighty four thousand stars
pierced my dreams passed through me
And I watched through the cracked glass
as the eighty four thousand stars
shot through you, scattered, and flew in bits across the sky
From: Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets
Publisher: 1995, Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Audio recorded at Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, 1985
Publisher: 1995, Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico
FRUITS OF LIGHT
The hemispheres of your chestrest on my hands far off on a distant sea
So heavy these fruits made of light!
A thorn, you pierce the lining
of my insides slip within
Distance makes you
overflow inside me
Absence makes you
come to live in my heart
Deep at night you became
eighty four thousand stars
pierced my dreams passed through me
And I watched through the cracked glass
as the eighty four thousand stars
shot through you, scattered, and flew in bits across the sky
From: Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets
Publisher: 1995, Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Publisher: 1995, Katydid Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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