poetry
The World Like a Blinking Mozaic
“Tonight the scent of the star is too strong”
Someone nearby whispers
And suddenly my body leaves earth
Lost in the galaxy reaching a point to look down upon earth
Fearing eternity in silent pressure
Where the complexion of darkness rise to the surface.
The body will diffuseYes—before, I was whole
That was perhaps the embodiment of memory
As long as life and death are equal I can understand death
In the rocking bed we call the body
The tired soul should will sleep
Quote from poem by saori
Translation from Japanese by Sho Sugita Becraft
Body I Left Behind
If the thing you call —
a flickering array of cells —
is what I answer to,
I am still myselfI have no remaining hold
of the body I left behind long ago;
and yet, there is
something that feels almost familiar
Quote from poem by saori