Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry by Edith Marcombe Shiffert

Author:Edith Marcombe Shiffert
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0_8048_0672_1
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Golden Venus

In a sealike evening sky

a golden honeybee makes wing sounds

like buzzing ears. . . .

On the other side of the valley

by the mountain opposite,

poised on top of the thin forest—Venus.

Presently that woman is hidden by a ridge.

I climb up onto a rock.

For a while she is visible.

Presently that woman is hidden by a ridge.

I get up onto a hilltop.

For a while she is visible.

That woman vanishes. That woman goes down.

That woman goes down. She goes away.

Earth is warped. . . . The mountain tilts. . . .

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