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Two Under a Tree
-Down the road in Adachi
Two pines in a field
There I see someone standing-
There’s Mount Atatara;
And that shimmering is the river Abukuma.
With these words, we sit down;
Transported as if asleep,
With only a pine scented wind
From a faraway world,
Green and gentle, blowing.
In the midst of this vast early winter’s landscape
I burn-
Holding your hand quietly:
Let’s not hide our joy
From that white cloud
Looking down on us.
You have an elixer of immortality
Smoldering in your soul-
Oh, the depths of this incredible love
Drawing me into you; these ten years,
The panorama of the seasons
We’ve walked together as One
Have shown me nothing but
The infiniteness of the Feminine
Within you.
Consumed by my emotions,
That which is smoldering
Within the infiniteness of your borders
Cleanses me;
Pouring fresh life into me.
Elusive and strangely ever-changing
Is that thing within you.
There’s Mount Atatara;
And that shimmering is the river Abukuma.
This is the place where you were born.
And those tiny specks of white,
The walls of your family’s wine cellars.
Stretching my legs, I breath in deeply
The air perfumed with the fragrance of the trees.
Under vast, clear skies in this northern province,
My skin is bathed- like you- in the air:
Cool, pleasant and resilient
Tomorrow I leave again-
Back to the city of sin; into
The chaotic whirlpool of love and hate;
Back into that human comedy which I dread,
And yet cling so fastly to.
This is the place where you were born
The land which gave birth to you-
Distinct, Mysterious.
The pine wind is still blowing;
Explain to me again
The geography of this lonely early winter’s landscape.
There’s Mount Atatara;
And that shimmering is the river Abukuma.
(1923)
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