Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Gyo Takano/Japan

fledglings


below the precipice sprawls despair, and at the precarity of peering in 

they hold the mournful meaning, send a glance, the corpse’s froth meanly menacing

a directly descending beak, overbearing

into the bottomless darkness, it cut across my field of vision


dragged forth by the hair, my disappointment becomes known

both legs thrust out, the electronic sound rings endlessly

if i start walking, the compass of my self-restraint runs wild

you, listening to the treble tones of birds at the harbor


the swirling chaos unstopping, so that scraps of paper or white flags

might be understood, rings of multilayered revolutions

can’t adjust to the gloom, the memento’s silhouette

sits up halfway, stick-straight trees sway their short sleeves

gazing into a divided dark fable, it can’t be decided


from somewhere a wind’s small voice was chosen

oars dangling doll’s heads, at the visiting hint of salt

the mountain’s veins are opened, they alternated lushly 

faced with the wall of red soil, these hands cannot move


at the door of sliding memory, the horizon’s curtain falls, brought to the meeting of the tides caught between the merry-go-round’s endangered ocean and the shore, the careless consumption that hastened the cretaceous, the fledglings attending to the rectangle that juts out over the cliff, they look left look right

with voices also swollen, cylindrical throats with eggs could sound

translated by Julia Hansell Clark

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