Not Here

2 Poems by Shimpei Kusano

ASKING MYSELF/ ANSWERING MYSELF

un un. un un.

un un.

mm mm. mm mm.

mm.

ah. ah. ah ah.

ah.

(shut up.)

(can't say a word.)

THE MOON

walking I was.

trampling fallen leaves.

moon rose.

and I.

turned into the street.

and again.

turn into a path.

(from ASKING MYSELF ANSWERING MYSELF, translated by Cid Corman, New Directions, 1984)