Start of autumn: hearing a cicada while sick in bed. (poem)

From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Chi'i-Chi | Copyright information

On my pillow little by little waking,

suddenly I hear a single cicada cry--

at that moment I know I have not died,

though past days are like a former existence.

I want to go to the window, listen closer,

but even w...

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