Time of Sky

Ayane Kawata

    1.
    Blood always blood
    As blue is blue
    Incessant explosion of a thirst-ripened orange
    2.
    A pigeon-like kiss upon the well that grows anywhere on the trembling mirror that exposes itself

    3.
    Flinging inwards
    and further in
    the innocent window
    Screams are forced to run radiantly and full speed

    4.
    Don’t call
    Don’t bundle the yellow lilies that fly about
    Don’t eavesdrop on the egg

    5.
    I discover a newly drowned body amidst the geometric scene welling up in the sky of my eyes

    6.
    The peninsula
    the rail
    the exploded branches
    the breasts
    the netting
    the white plate
    fly!

    7.
    Because the blue sky is so swift
    I must lap up the warmish blood seeping into the mirror

    8
    The morpho butterfly
    who crosses over
    lighter than semen
    snatches what away
    from the eye called eye

    9.
    A transparent clock is constructed while being kneaded by the foul breath of things which sprout

    10.
    A scream inside a fish
    A table is a table
    The raped orange becomes the blue sky

    11.
    Tumbling recklessly while mincing the surroundings is a wound or ear or the yellow lily

    12.
    The pigeon
    does not get any lighter than that
    does not go dark
    draws yellow on the spine

    13.
    The woman who drank the glass window will have a seizure at dawn and tremble to her fingertips

    14.
    See
    Let’s sound the organ and
    blow away the woods bulging with sparkling eggs

    15.
    Please give me the fishy stars born by the coral trees with black nostrils that inflate into the sun

    16.
    The word
    of the right breast
    of the bag under the eye
    of the leg
    of the fire filling my fingertips
    of the sounds of bloodwaves
    in my eye

    17.
    While ceaselessly painting the cranial sky blue
    the blood must train inside the brass instrument

    18.
    A slope that arises
    from anywhere
    Stray dogs loiter about
    and dawn imposes the birth of an unexpected bird

    19.
    From the trace of the incontinent blood of an angel walking along holding some sky cut out with a glass cutter, the dawn

    20.
    In the insanely quiet
    sky of the eyes
    a blank sheet of paper rouses the suggestion of a peculiar flower and blows up

    

Ayane Kawata - Ayane Kawata was born in 1940 in the city of Qiqihar in the Heilongjiang Province of northeast China. In 1969, the publication of and subsequent acclaim she received for her first book, Time of Sky (Kumo Publishers, 1969), established her as a prominent and emerging Japanese poet. The same year, she moved to Italy, where she has lived for most of her subsequent years. Kawata has published ten books of poetry, the majority of them by the most important publishers of contemporary Japanese poetry: Shichosha, Shoshi Yamada, and Seidosha. Her poems have often featured in major poetry publication journals in Japan, such as Gendaishitecho, Midnight Press, and Eureka, and have been widely anthologized. In 1994 she was selected to have a book in the prestigious Gendaishi Bunko Series, anthologizing and republishing a sizable selection of her work. Time of Sky/Castles in the Air is Kawata’s first book-length translation into English.
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