MUMONKAN(GATELESS PASS)
Here, now
sister mine
lost
in time
dead to this world
I offer you
my eyes
my ears
so that you can see...can hear
without fear of Death
always interrupting you.
Take this breath & live again.
I can see enough for two.
*
MYOJU(THE END OF LIFE)
After the bus crash her soul walked home
limping awkwardly now
leaving a trail of footprints
leaking time like blood.
*
KAEI(THE SHADOWS OF FLOWERS)
Often, I visit this moment
long gone
(that has never ceased to exist) .
I go to find my sister
calling her name
lost as she is in the middle
of this vast field
her blue dress a flower
at the very center of it.
Here, Death
does not know her
name
only I call her.
She carries me home
in a piggyback.
I fascinated with the freckle
under the shadow of a curl
where shoulder
meets neck.
I lost in her laughter.
Both of us escaping
Her Death.
*
AME NO UTA(SONGS OF RAIN)
Here, Death
itemises her.
The bruised breast.
The torn spleen.
The broken ribs.
The hemorrhaging.
Death, leaving
his mark
on this
human being.
Familiar with her.
Owning her.
Memory tiptoes
into Death's great palace
& steals back
a freckle
lost behind
a curl
between
shoulder
& neck.
Death
has no need
for it.
