Poem, TOKYO

Nov 02, 2021

Berlin

by Mizuho Ishida

tr. Michiyo Sekine

Minerals whisper by heart the locked

World of sounds a capacitor

A tuning coil quartz copper wires

The world of deep layered handshake wrapping her five fingers 

In the empty lot of entity

Strange sounds of miscellaneous things dripping

Casting the eyes to another direction 

Your profile became a bright labyrinth

“Tell Mister  the time  has come”

The white smell of cheese was hanging in the key-keeping room

The light scents of soap, a book, and seaweed were also

Leaves of chestnut tree chat in a whisper

Nine herons stand like flowers in the factory water channel

The scents too I hear scarlet

Sacred ears, says Said

A blank key a bit key a seventeenth-century skeleton key

With the touch of nails sound together

The exercise book can only be called love 

I’m curious to get in touch with the paper further away

a is one dot b is two dots

The world of alphabet is 

made of six dots

Kurz will go to  the bakery

Kur z will go to th e bakery

A fingers boat is impatient to offer light to

The inside bumps and dips not seen through

Time ripples surges and retreats

I give up unnoticed

Opening up the opaqueness just a 

Little  only want to move the opaque area

And quake outside of the scarlet sounds

The quince is plucked off all and quiet

“When mermaids’ hairs turn white”

ベルリン

石田瑞穂

鉱物たちが空でささやく 鍵のかかった
音の世界 コンデンサ
同調コイル 石英 銅ワイヤー
彼女の五指を深く幾重にもつつむ握手の世界
存在の空き地に
雑多なものがしたたる奇妙な音
あらぬ方に瞳をはじいて
きみの横顔は明るい迷路になった
「おじさんに 時がきた と伝えて」
鍵保管室にはチーズの白い香が漂っていた
石鹸と本と海藻の軽やかな匂いも
栗の木の葉が小声でおしゃべりして
九羽の鷺が花のように工場の水路にたつ
匂いも 紅く聴こえてくる
聖耳だね とサイードはいう
刻みなし鍵 棒鍵 一七世紀の骸骨鍵
爪でふれればひと絡げに鳴る
愛としかいえない練習帖の
もっと遠い紙にふれてみたくて
aは点ひとつ bは点ふたつ
アルファベートの世界は
むっつの点でできています
クルツは パン 屋へゆき ます
クル ツは パン屋へゆ きます
指の舟は内側の透視されない凹凸に
光を与えようと もどかしく
時間は波うち 寄せてはかえす
不透明さを開くことは いつしか
諦めている ただ ほんの
すこし 不透明な地帯を動かし
慄えさせたいだけ 緋色の音の外
マルメロの実はすっかりもがれて静か
「人魚たちの髪が白くなると」

Mizuho Ishida

Mizuho Ishida

Poet. Winner of the 37th Gendaishi Techo Award (1999). Author of several poetry collections, including Segment Kakera hen (Shichosha, 2006); Sleepy Islands (Shichosha, 2012), which was awarded the 63rd H Prize; Ear, Bamboo Leaf Boat (Shichosha, 2015), which received the 54th Toson Memorial Prize of Rekitei; Asian Dream (Shichosha, 2019); and Poem on Solitariness of Drifted Snow (Shichosha, 2022). Member of the Japan Poets Association. Guest associate professor at Gakushuin University.

 

His recent serialized essays include:

“Roads to a Poem.” Sayusha,

https://sayusha.com/readings/poetry/-/post-1453

“A Heart Playing in a Trip” (Photograph: Shuhei Tonami). Kanaya Hotel Kinugawa,

https://kinugawakanaya.com/tabi/

“Perch of the Eye.” Crossing Lines,

https://note.com/crossing__lines/


詩人。1999年に第37回現代詩手帖賞受賞。個人詩集に『片鱗篇』(思潮社・新しい詩人シリーズ)、『まどろみの島』(思潮社、第63回H氏賞受賞)、『耳の笹舟』(思潮社、第54回藤村記念歴程賞受賞)、『Asian Dream』(思潮社)、最新詩集に長篇詩『流雪孤詩』(思潮社)。日本現代詩人会会員。学習院大学客員准教授。
 
連載エッセイ:
「詩への旅」左右社https://sayusha.com/readings/poetry/-/post-1453
「旅に遊ぶ心」(写真:砺波周平)鬼怒川金谷ホテルhttps://kinugawakanaya.com/tabi/
「眼のとまり木」Crossing Lines
https://note.com/crossing__lines/
 

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