published Essays to date: Mariko Kitakubo

'In The Sequoia Forest'

1)
from these trees
I get the spark of life
and I
give it them,too,
in the sequoai forest

2)
I don't wish
to harm this forest ---
at dawn
the sound of mist swirling
the sound of trees sleeping

3)
dew-clad and silent
the lower branches
f a tree
　　three thousand years old,
standing there fresh and cool

4)
that wind
blowing down
from the tree-top ---
are the eyes of
the sequoia god,opening ?

5)
so faint
the song of the stream
on a redwood trunk ---
one thousand years
of peaceful living

6)
in gratitude
for a time of enrichment
among the trees
I place an oxalis flower
reverently on a stump

just as I
enter the strait
the inky nails
of the Grim Reaper
claw towards me

lest we stray
the Milky Way
just happens
to slip between
our entwined fingers

as if
falling down
into the galaxy,
I would fall
into your heart

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