FRAGMENT Poem by Kazue Shinkawa

FRAGMENT



Our neighbor's wife
has given birth to a lovely baby girl.
Why can't you bear a child?
laments my husband who loves children.

I keep silent
and cook rice
mornings and evenings,
like this, pricking up my ears,
listening in the pot
to the prayers of the rice.

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