Hiroshi Satow Poems

men in black,
women also.
I've seen them a couple of times
since I was a kid,
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in the supermarket I found chou a la creme grandma really loved,
and I saw Baumkuchen mom often used to have.

now they're gone, mom and grandma,
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I thought it was snow
but it wasn't
it was just a pebble
gleaming in the late autumn's sun
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walking about aimlessly
in a backstreet of Tokyo
on a June afternoon
I saw a dog
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The evening star or the morning star?
Whichever it may be named,
Anyone can see it.
Any day.
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