By Shinkichi Takahashi
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You have obvious its slough—your personal? Tiger within the white bamboo, eyes difficult: study from this—to see dying is to determine one other, by no means oneself. Flames char the bamboo grove, the vermilion sparrow has flown right into a fossil—just like that. Tortoise strikes, a gradual fireplace, down hill, flushed in sundown— claws loss of life to shreds, purple, brown. Tiger's smooth: tongue laps a dragon from the ocean. Sparrow, using a shell-tank, makes for its abdominal. what is this? My body's shaking with laughter. a bit sun • • • • • • • • • timber within the wooden useless, leaves pall the earth. On a wide go with the flow the red-sweatered lady waits. there is simply a blink of solar, a leaf blows on her face. the guy comes up quietly, lies down beside her. quickly she takes to the air on my own, toting her case. He prays (I listen him now) all may fit good along with her. A aircraft roars above, he snuffs his cigarette. useless leaves blow aside. Explosion • • • • • • • i am an unthinking puppy, a good-for-nothing cat, a fog over gutter, a blossom-swiping rain. I shut my eyes, breathe— radioactive air! 1000000000 years and i will be reduced in size to part, pollutants moves my marrow. So what—I'll whoop at what continues to be. but scant blood left, diminished to vacancy via nuclear fission, i am working very quickly. Railroad Station • • • • • • • • A railroad station, a number of passengers getting on, off, a closed stall at the platform. Is it there or in my head, floating at the creases of my mind? little need to stick or go away, a spot so quiet: price tag window, wicket, staff— none. yet there is a samurai committing suicide. Station grasp cocks the camera's eye, evidence of his diligence. educate skims rails of my mind, what is placing to that strap is briefcase, digicam, no guy. Absence • • • • • • • simply say, “He's out” again in 5 billion years! Interview with Shinkichi Takahashi • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • As in all arts, there are various poets fascinated with Zen self-discipline; its spirit has continually appealed to eastern artists. Shinkichi Takahashi is taken into account the best Zen poet of our day. a long time a legend, he's a guy of satori, deeply proficient in Zen, his enlightenment testified to via Shizan-roshi, some of the most unusual masters of the trendy interval. Represented in all significant anthologies of jap poetry, his paintings is learn not just by means of poetry fanatics yet through people with wisdom of the philosophy. As his pal and translator, i've got impatiently waited the opportunity to invite that which i do know lots of his admirers would prefer replied. Takahashi, his spouse, and a daughter reside in a quiet, slender highway within the Nakano Ward of Tokyo. The very steep staircase of his modest apartment leads as much as his tiny research, stacked with books and field on cardboard field of manuscripts. there's a photograph of his Zen grasp at the wall, put beside the inka offered by means of the grasp, the conventional “Moon-and-the-Water” testomony (Inka: the awakening of a disciple officially testified to by way of his Zen master).