Monday, February 15, 2016

"Nothing, nothing at all ...."



Nothing, nothing at all
is born,
Dies, the shell says again
and again
from the depth of hollowness,
         Its body
Swept off by tide – so what?
         It sleeps
in sand, drying in sunlight,
         bathing
in moonlight.  Nothing to do
         with sea
or anything else.  Over
         and over
it vanishes with the wave.


Shinkichi Takahashi

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