Excuse me
aber...
um zur Geographie
eines Universums zu werden –
I’m lost
In my mind
eines Universums
Up here at night
in dem der Schmerz
I’m tied down
durch den
zum Material gewordenen
Sonnenuntergang
Stars down
spricht und vibriert.
This is the moment when you see who you are.
(Text unter Verwendung von Zitaten von F. Jameson und Burial)
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The phenomenon called I
is a single blue illumination
of a presupposed organic alternating current lamp
(a composite body of each and every transparent spectre)
The single illumination
of karma’s alternating current lamp
remains alight without fail
flickering unceasingly, restlessly
together with the sights of the land and all else
(the light is preserved… the lamp itself is lost)
These poems are a mental sketch formed faithfully
passage by passage of light and shade
maintained and preserved to this point
brought together in paper and mineral ink
from the directions sensed as past
for these twenty-two months
(the totality flickers in time with me
all sensing all that I sense)
I assure you, however, that the scenes recorded here
are scenes recorded solely in their natural state
and if this is nihil then it is nothing but nihil and the totality is common in degree to all of us
(just as everything forms what is the sum in me
so do all parts become the sum of everything)
Spring and Shura
Kenji Miyazawa
20 January 1924