Carpe Diem’s Leafless Tree #2 through our torn paper doors (Sokan)
waga oya no shinuru toki ni mo he o kokite
even when
my father lay down dying
I kept farting
kaze samushi yabure-shooji no kannazuki
cold wind
through our torn paper doors
in the month without gods *
© Yamazaki Sokan (Tr. Gabi Greve)
quick thrust to back
chiropractic manipulation
i break wind
month without hope
torn wallpaper flutters
with each breath of wind