A Thousand Strands of Black Hair by Seiko Tanabe

Author:Seiko Tanabe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857282651
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Upon this lotus leaf

I write of feelings

I am sure

even the gods themselves

know nothing of.

“Now it’s your turn,” he said with a smile to them.

“Oh dear, do you really think we should break off leaves like this? Surely the gods are watching.” Tomiko stretched out her delicate white hand, put her fingers into the water, and drew a leaf towards her. Then, humming to herself, she wrote:

Thinking to write a poem

I plucked a lotus leaf –

what small voice

whispered there

on the plucked string of its stem?

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