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Is that a human voice?

Is that a human voice?
The sound that is thin and muffled.

We can hear it. It is there.
Now it’s gone.

We still hear… it’s still there.
That sound.

© Translation: 2017, Toshikazu Yasumizu

This poem, as was \'Kobe, another war 50 years ago\', was written in the wake of the great earthquake disaster in 1995.

人の声かしら

人の声かしら

人の声かしら。
ほそぼそときこえるあれは。

きこえている。
きこえなくなる。

まだきこえている。
あれは。

© 1999, Toshikazu Yasumizu
From: 生きているということ（Being Alive ）
Publisher: Henshūkōbō Noah, Osaka

Toshikazu Yasumizu

Toshikazu Yasumizu

Toshikazu Yasumizu has to date published 23 poetry collections, six volumes of selected and complete poems, six scripts for radio and theatre, and 25 books of essays and literary criticism. He has also edited seven anthologies. And all of this acitvity is in addition to his day job as a college professor in English literature. Born in Kobe in 1931, he is 86 years old today and still writing.

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Is that a human voice?

Is that a human voice?
The sound that is thin and muffled.

We can hear it. It is there.
Now it’s gone.

We still hear… it’s still there.
That sound.

© 2017, Toshikazu Yasumizu
From: 生きているということ（Being Alive ）

Is that a human voice?

Is that a human voice?
The sound that is thin and muffled.

We can hear it. It is there.
Now it’s gone.

We still hear… it’s still there.
That sound.

© 2017, Toshikazu Yasumizu

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