the graves in a row and up to them the waves press in
haka ga narande soko made nami ga oshiyosete
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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A graveyard by the sea. Right up to the graves standing in a row, the waves come pressing in. The precarious adjacency of the quiet place where the dead sleep and the sea that never stops moving.