quai d'orsay

casse-tête chinois

冬三月こもるといふも齢哉

for three months
my winter seclusion...
old age

translated by david g. lanoue

valeu

Vida, valeu.
Não te repetirei jamais.

desejo

Só o desejo não passa
e só deseja o que passa
e passo meu tempo inteiro
enfrentando um só problema:
ao menos no meu poema
agarrar o passageiro.

手の皺の一夜に見ゆる秋の雨

all night looking
at my wrinkled hands...
autumn rain

translated by david g. lanoue

立秋や旅止まくと思ふ間に

autumn begins--
I thought by now this journey
would've ended

translated by david g. lanoue

the searchers

夕月のけばけばしさを秋の風

shining up
the evening moon...
autumn wind

translated by david g. lanoue

一人づつ皆去にけり秋の風

one by one
everyone has left...
autumn wind

translated by david g. lanoue

Un Château, bien comme il faut

some like it hot

天広く地ひろく秋もゆく秋ぞ

vast sky
vast earth
autumn passes too

translated by david g. lanoue

山は虹いまだに湖水は野分哉

rainbow over the mountain
yet on the lake
an autumn gale

translated by david g. lanoue

Huesos de siglos,
penas ya penas montes:
aqui no pesan.


Centuries of bones,
mountains: sorrow turned into stone:
here they are weightless.

Eliot Weinberger