ランプ消した時の石油の匂う朝が雪ふり
The scent of oil
when the lamp is extinguished
Morning snowfall
湯気立つところには妻が居る
Where steam is rising
there’s my wife
日ぐれ風は氷を打って林へ遁走する
Evening wind strikes the ice
and flees into the forest
心、手、壷となる
1.
The heart,
the hands,
now an urn
2.
The heart
the hands
amount to a jar
見にゆく月がうしろにある
I’m going to look and see
what’s behind the moon
さよならさよならができてさよなら
farewell
farewell
I’m ready
farewell
衰えはて遠い世界の月がのぼる
Over a devastated
faraway world
the moon rises
さくらちる人形はいつも硝子の中
Falling cherry blossoms
The doll is always
inside glass
うまのまつ毛のさみしさは春のゆきふる
The loneliness in a horse’s eyelash
is snow falling in the spring
馬のちんちんとっくんとっくん春の夕べをかえりゆく
When the horse’s penis
goes tokkun-tokkun
Spring nights are returning
蛇のかくれようとするしっぽ山の雨やんでいる
Rain stops falling
in the mountains
when a snake
tries to hide its tail
鶏小屋にひっそり赤い月のぼり人の命おちゆく
–（母の死）
All is still in the hen house
A red moon rises
on one whose life is departing
–(On the death of my mother)
蛍一つ戸にすがりこの家喪にをる
A single firefly
clings to the door
of my home in mourning
冬の夕日はカトリックの匂いがする十字架の鴉
The winter sunset
smells of Catholics
crows on the cross
裸、星ふる
Naked,
stars
fall
–中原紫童 (Nakahara Shidô)
NOTES:
I couldn’t find a definition for とっくんとっくん (tokkun-tokkun), so I’ll let you imagine exactly what a horse’s penis does on nights in spring.
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