Poems
Translated as “Green Blaze” by Miryam Sas
Translated as “Green Flames” by Sawako Nakayasu
緑の焔
Those I see first come noisily closer descend so many green stairs pass by that place heading further on packed into a narrow space partway through little by little they harden and become a mountain when they move in the barley field a wave of light forms a furrow and continues on a forest area overflows with thick sap-water and cannot mix in a larch tree with short hair a snail that paints with care a spider stretches out
electric wires like fog everything revolves from green to deeper green they are in the milk bottle on the table faces crushed they bend over and are reflected slide around an apple sometimes look as though they are crumbling every time they intercept light beams in the street it’s a blind girl playing by crossing through the shadow of the rings of the sun.
I close the window in a hurry danger is coming to me outside a fire breaks out a green blaze beautifully burning rises high while circling the outer edge of the earth and in the end squeezed by the single narrow line of the horizon it goes out
The weight of my body leaves me returns to the hollow of oblivion here people lose their minds being sad or speaking to each other has no meaning the eye is dyed green belief becomes uncertain and seeing irritates me
Who is it blindfolding me from behind? Plunge me down into slumber
I first see them loudly approaching descending numerous green stairs pass by look away crowded into a small space while gradually hardening into a mound their movement makes waves of light furrow through the wheat field a thick overflowing fluid makes it impossible to stir the woodlands larch trees with short hair snail that paints carefully a spider spins electric wires like a mist everything rotates from green to deeper green they are inside the milk bottle on the kitchen table are reflected crouching with their faces flattened sliding around an apple they seem to crumble as they block off shafts of light in the street a blind girl plays by ducking under the shadows of the sun’s rings.
I hurry to shut the window danger has come right up to me a fire blazes outside the beautifully burning green flames spread high, circling the outskirts of the earth and in the end they dwindle, disappear as a single thin line of the horizon
My weight takes leave of me drags me back to the depths of oblivion people are mad here there is no point in feeling sorrow nor in speaking eyes are dyed green believing grows uncertain and looking enrages me
Who blindfolds me from behind? Shove me into sleep.
私は最初に見る 賑やかに近づいて来る彼らを 緑の階段をいくつも降りて 其処を通つて あちらを向いて 狭いところに詰つてゐる 途中少しづつかたまつて山になり 動く時には麦の畑を光の波が畝になつて続く 森林地帯は濃い水液が溢れてかきまぜることが出来ない 髪の毛の短い落葉松 ていねいにペンキを塗る蝸牛 蜘蛛は霧のやうに電線を張つてゐる 総ては緑から深い緑へと廻転してゐる 彼らは食卓の上の牛乳壜の中にゐる 顔をつぶして身を屈めて映つてゐる 林檎のまはりを滑つてゐる 時々光線をさへぎる毎に砕けるやうに見える 街路では太陽の環の影をくぐつて遊んでゐる盲目の少女である。
私はあわてて窓を閉ぢる 危険は私まで来てゐる 外では火災が起つてゐる 美しく燃えてゐる緑の焔は地球の外側をめぐりながら高く拡がり そしてしまひには細い一本の地平線にちぢめられて消えてしまふ
体重は私を離れ 忘却の穴の中へつれもどす ここでは人々は狂つてゐる 悲しむことも話しかけることも意味がない 眼は緑色に染まつてゐる 信じることが不確になり見ることは私をいらだたせる
私の後から目かくしをしてゐるのは誰か？ 私を睡眠へ突き墜せ。