Day and night part at the top of a cypress
Wings draw in light's final rays
Sailing in youth-sheltering waves
Death turns psyche's compass

Tyrant Memory sounds warning bells
Beyond time's frames - homesickness
Alarmed police seeking rant-windstorms
Go light-headed from the recognition of light's fingerprints

The sky tends its wounds in ground-pools
Stars in Theatre Night reserve fixed seating
Orphans guide blind-pupilled praise-songs
Along mouth-like passes to greet the moon

That earliest of all has no name
Waters reform timetables
The sun opens its eye-dazzling umbrella
To see off those from alien homelands

Translation: Tao Naikan and Simon Patton