submitted by Lafcadio Hearn Files on 08.06.2014
Like an artist painting on rice grains, he tried to trap Japan in a story: his one good eye so close to the page he might have been a jeweller with a gem. So much to tell: kimonos and cranes, Cemeteries to stalk at evening, slow Shoals of candles – souls on rivers beneath a massive moon. Even the sound of sandals on a bridge Stayed in the mind for an evening, Matching the shadow of fishermen On still waters: a painted print. Or a face smiling to hide its grief, the touch of passing sleeves part of a plan that maps the future, a heron seeking the heights on a wall. Loneliness ended in Matsue: that raw Pain no longer gnawing like the Creole songs on a sidewalk in New Orleans. Instead he heard a flute’s clear note. He was a lantern drifting from the shore, dissolving in the tone of a struck bell. Sipping green tea in Tokyo, he heard Ghost stories from an impossible past and died past fifty from his Western heart. Afterwards he was a story still told, set firmly as rocks in a Zen garden. Incense burns near cake at his shrine. In the sound of sandals on a bridge I hear him sometimes, or catch him In the swift calligraphy of a scroll, or in the curve of a rough bowl. A breeze through a bamboo grove, his memory passes for an instant. Snow falls on his grave and on plum blossom. He is fading like a fisherman in mist. (Sean Dunne, 1956 – 1995)
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