HAMMER Poem by Iku Takenaka

A
1 Railway tracks running, railway tracks shining, crossing like knives.
Railroads crossing, crossties extending, making parallel lines.
2 Railway tracks parting one after another, railway tracks, railway tracks.
3 The sea at last.
4 A steamship floating on the sea. A gigantic wall. A refusal.
(The wall is standing in our way)
5 Waves trying to wash the freeboard mark, waves crawling.

B
1 A woman's hair is blowing in the wind, hair without a face.
2 A fluttering white sail.
3 At the top of the high mast is a sailor on duty painting.
4 A bird's eye view of the sea, the approaching sea.
5 O, falling. The sailor falling.
6 A navigation lamp crashed to pieces.

C
1 A hammer, a hand that holds the hammer hitting rivets, so fast that you can't see.
2 The hand resting, but the hand that won't open.
3 A blood vessel, a throbbing blood vessel.
4 A cluster of chains falling into the sea.
5 Swallowed in between the waves, bubble, bubble, bubble.
6 Ripples fading ever softly.