Monday 16 June 2008

Haiku of Richard Wright(56)


(photo)hollyhock blossoms

The cool green melon
Made me trace my forefinger
Along its whole length.



冷えた青いメロン
人差し指で
ひとまわりなぞってみた



(放哉)
大空のました帽子かぶらず

Just under the blue sky
I don't need
a hat.

■Nature causes both Wright and Hohsai to act. Wright traces his forefinger along a melon's whole length. Hohsai stops wearing his hat. I feel that Wright has some kind of desire and Hohsai doesn't have one. Hohsai also made the following work:
The way water flows
In the night
When murder has been committed.

This haiku reminds me the terror in Akihabara the other day. It rained on the following day. The rain in Akihabara must have appeared different from usual.

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