it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
"Although the wind
blows terribly here
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house."
(translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani)
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."