Now, over the field,
evening hangs suspended like a gigantic harp.
Frost binds the ridges solemnly severed furrow from furrow;
the long harp-sound of the wind runs by,
one first white star
strikes the highest note.
Winter fades widely, widely like an ancient;
though spring is yet far away
presentiments already hover between heaven and earth.
I step on this late earth that is growing dark
and throw seeds from my hand
overflowing like the evening sun
and heavy because of faith in seeds.
They sink
like stuff that serves deeply,
to transform the nights under the ground
and enlighten gradually the far daybreak.
A pure and clear condensation is felt.
Now, within the greyish silence around,
my being is a reverent anthem.
And already hearing
(the harvest field like a festival,
burning noon kingfisher colored)
June like the sea.
Frequently I am impelled to stand still,
as though to authenticate the distance to an object.
That distance is being replenished,
behold, by thick whirlwinds and billions of air particles.
Yesterday I watched smoke of field fires ascend from several
places of this plateau,
today listen to faint birds in a forest of fallen leaves.
For ten days I have not heard news of the city,
undulations of fields and mountains where clouds gather and
narrow pathways run through blue-green withered grasses and
occasional trains descend a ravine shouldering cliffs
and. . .
Yes, existing clear and separate from each other,
being strong indeed in their final essence and fate,
aspects of objects always express their own most proper splendors.
In this way, being entirely alone,
to all phenomena of the world
I give praise for original corresponding splendors.
(Kihachi Ozaki)
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