Kazuko Shiraishi
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There is fire in his eyes
When he stares at me intently I become hot
A cold heart and a chilled stomach
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Regarding the future the donkey contemplates after this century
What sort of century will come then
How will the donkey's ears be useful
Will poetry be peacefully prosperous or
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one day suddenly it happens
the sea calm till now stirs
the moment whitecaps rise the wind stands up
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there you can fish tasteful fish
come up on the table but
the lake is yellow and doesn't show its depths
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I have never been anything like pink
a child becomes a girl and finally when she heads for the dawn
there is one long road to M. from Y. a bus goes by every thirty
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This little planet begins to have a headache
Since humans occupied it and took it out of God's hand
Green blood dries, earth's veins wither
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Sea, land, shadow, Iwanuma
the tsunami tsunami came
in silence it came
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Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ Shiraishi Kazuko?, born 1931) is a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, Canada. She is a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono's "VOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951. She read some of her poems at jazz performances. She has appeared at readings and literary festivals all over the world.)
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The Man With Fire In His Eyes
There is fire in his eyes
When he stares at me intently I become hot
A cold heart and a chilled stomach
Get warm
He has the African sun in his eyes
A man who has the pride of the Zulu royal family
The meat he roasted for me
In the oven in his kitchen in between revolutions
Was delicious
In the living room his one year old twins Ra and Re
Were taking turns crying
His eyes of fire gently soothing the children
Sing a lullaby
There was a moment the warm
Earth was warmed to the core and became happy
In the living room of the man with fire in his eyes.
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Her connection to the world and the cosmos, her compassion, is implicit to mystical thinking. This is clearly evidenced in her recent poems 'The Afternoon of the Sheep' and 'The Wild Pigs of Kalimantan' from her new collection Let Those Who Appear. This compassion is present in the later poem especially when, after recounting the terror of the wild pigs caught in a forest fire caused by humans, she feels the helpless tragedy of their experience: The wild pigs are walking this way crashing through My notebook plunging their burnt Black hooves of grains into my heart. (9)