<takuboku's untitled poem "[I picked up my mother]">
2003-05-19.2:49 p.m.


Untitled
Ishikawa Takuboku
translator Kenneth Rexroth


I picked up my mother
In play.  But when I lifted
That frail light body,
I was so overcome
I could not take three steps.



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