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Chimako Tada

Side by side

MYSELF

I am planted in the earth
Happily, like a cabbage
Carefully peel away the layers of language
That clothe me and soon
It will become clear I am nowhere to be found
And yet even so, my roots lie beneath . . .

© Translation: 2010, Jeffrey Angles
From: Forest of Eyes: Selected Poetry of Tada Chimako
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA, 2010

MYSELF

© 1956, Chimako Tada
From: Hanabi (Fire Works)
Publisher: Shoshi Yuriika, Tokyo

Chimako Tada

Chimako Tada

(Japan, 1930 - 2003)

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MYSELF

From: Hanabi (Fire Works)

MYSELF

I am planted in the earth
Happily, like a cabbage
Carefully peel away the layers of language
That clothe me and soon
It will become clear I am nowhere to be found
And yet even so, my roots lie beneath . . .

© 2010, Jeffrey Angles
From: Forest of Eyes: Selected Poetry of Tada Chimako
Publisher: 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA

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