Friday, March 31, 2000

春雪が陸奥に降る三月も今宵限りと地図を辿りぬ

At the last night of March I open an atlas
Looking for a northern land under the spring snow



Thursday, March 30, 2000

日向から猫の手借りて逃走すカメ三匹は主の座奪い

Three turtles ran away while sunbathing helped by a cat
They deprived me of the status of their mistress, alas!



Wednesday, March 29, 2000

慈雨を浴び手植えたひとの逝きて尚俯き咲けるラッパ水仙

After the planter passed away the merciful shower
Grew a daffodil, which is bending in bloom



Tuesday, March 28, 2000

執拗な胸苦しさと同衾し夜の底さらう嵐に揺れる

I lie in bed with the obstinate sickness in my chest
Resonating with the raging night storm  



Monday, March 27, 2000

地下鉄が地上を走る一瞬にドーム・パーク・ロード網膜に焼く

In a moment the subway runs in the open air
My retinae firmly catch a Dome, a Park, a Road



Sunday, March 26, 2000

卓上に潮騒招くキンギョソウ去年房総の春は幻

Stems of snapdragon call the sound of waves on the table
Reminding me of the past illusory spring in Boso Beach



Saturday, March 25, 2000

父と娘は寄り添い何を語るやら辛夷満開夕刻の路地

Who knows what they talk, a father and a daughter
Under kobushi in full bloom in the evening alley



Friday, March 24, 2000

疎ましき病と服を脱ぎ捨てて湯に四肢伸ばし魚類に還る

Take off the weary sickness and clothes
Put the whole body in a hot bath to be fish again



Thursday, March 23, 2000

蜘蛛の巣における朝露きらめいて宝珠は要らず一言を得る

A sparkling morning dew on the web
No jewery, but a precious phrase for me!



Wednesday, March 22, 2000

肋骨も肺も気管も定位置にX線の我がポートレート

Ribs, lungs, and windpipes all in their position
My portrait of an X-ray photograph



Tuesday, March 21, 2000

残酷な春の日は暮れ密やかに人を抱き取る夜はやさしい

The cruel spring sun is set
Tender is the night, holding a man in secret 
 


Monday, March 20, 2000

最果てに「風の牧場」があるという詩に誘われ断崖に飛べ

Fly soul, to the cliff led by the poem 
On the northernmost Wind Farm 
 


Sunday, March 19, 2000

ウィルスと白血球の戦場に身を明け渡し自我は放逐

I've surrendered my body to be the battlefield 
Of virus and leukocyte, no place for ego 
 


Saturday, March 18, 2000

満身に蜘蛛の巣めぐり泥沼の眠りに堕ちて春陽遙か

My whole body is wrapped up with webs and fallen 　
In the bog of endless sleep; spring light is too far
 


Friday, March 17, 2000

去るは去り春の儀式は移りゆくさざ波の間にことば鎮めて

Gone is gone, spring ceremonies follow one by one
Let my words be calm in the jabbles inside me 



Thursday, March 16, 2000

熱の波うつらうつらに漂えば静かに光る湖に出る

Drifting on the waves of fever in dreams
I come to find a pond shining quietly
 


Wednesday, March 15, 2000

袴の緒胸高に締め髪を結い二十歳の姿誇示し巣立ちぬ

The sash of kimono trousers tightened high under breasts
Hair arranged dressily, women aged 20 proudly departed their alma mater
 


Tuesday, March 14, 2000

チューリップただ一輪にカード添え含羞の笑み「卒業記念」と

A student handed me a tulip with a card
"To commemorate my graduation," smiling shyly
 


Monday, March 13, 2000

幻に非ず旗立て車椅子交えて進むシュプレヒコール

Together with wheelchairs, banners hung high
A march of demonstration goes chanting, no illusion
 


Sunday, March 12, 2000

雨止んで動く影あり鶯と色を捕らえぬ声聴く前に

After the rain I caught the moving moss green of uguisu 
The spring herald, before hearing their twittering 
 


Saturday, March 11, 2000

黙々と敷布に散りし花の色洗う少女の痛き幼さ

Washing the color of flowers scattered on the sheet
Still too young is the girl to be called a woman
 


Friday, March 10, 2000

朝毎に蕾膨らむ白木蓮哀しき者の夜を照らせよ

White flowerbuds bulging every morning on the tree
Brighten the people in sadness like good lamps at night 
 


Thursday, March 9, 2000

吹きさらし遠近法の構図なるホームの縁に燈火数える

On a windswept platform in perspective I count the lights
 


Wednesday, March 8, 2000

暖求め手打ちうどんのカウンター見知らぬ人の狭間に一人

Longing for warmth, at the bar of a noodle shop
I sit between strangers alone  



Tuesday, March 7, 2000

清々と麦穂の混じる花束を瞳に抱いて一日過ごせり

Bunches of bouquets with fresh wheatears mingled
Stayed in my eyes all day long  



Monday, March 6, 2000

風切り羽失ってより地に潜み飛翔夢見る雲雀の如し

Since its flight feather was lost
A bird on earth dreams of soaring high like a skylark 



Sunday, March 5, 2000

横にしたペットボトルに棲むメダカ2リットルなる宇宙遊泳

A medaka in a plastic bottle laid down
Swims in the cosmos of 2 liters



Saturday, March 4, 2000

やわらかに雨降る夜は懐かしく貧しきケースの雛壇覗く

Hearing the soft rain at night
I watch the doll court in a humble glass case 



Friday, March 3, 2000

雛の夜を永訣の時と為してより父の微笑み浮かぶ雪洞

Since the Feast of Dolls' night turned to be the time for farewell
My father's last smile has been appearing in pair of paper lanterns



Thursday, March 2, 2000 

山上の枯れ枝空に掌広げ光集めて命育む

A hilltop tree opens its bare branches to the sky
Collecting light to foster Life



Wednesday, March 1, 2000

自転車の篭に桃の枝挿していく街は弥生に初化粧かな

Branches of peach blossom in a bicycle basket
The first makeup for the street in March!



Tuesday, February 29, 2000

黒髪の房切り落とす春の朝まなじり清く娘静座す

Locks of her black hair being cut 
A girl with serene eyes sits motionless in a spring morning



Monday, February 28, 2000 

「早春賦」喉につかえしホスピスの父の窓辺に淡雪の降る

"Early Spring Song" stuck in my throat
Snowfall out of a window of the hospice for my father



Sunday, February 27, 2000 

冬眠を剥いで日向に亀の子を置けば薄目に風の香を嗅ぐ

Deprived of their hibernation, turtles smell the wind with caution.



Saturday, February 26, 2000 

職人の時計細工す白髪は技積み上げし時の冠

A craftsman bending on a watch, his art in his snow crown