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I'll sleep here grass seeds spilling

koko de neru to suru kusa no mi no koboreru

1936 · The long journey east
Sōmokutō · From Journey to Journey (Tabi kara tabi e)

Notes

I'll sleep here tonight, he decides, and lays his body down among the grasses; wherever he touches, grass seeds spill loose. The grass, refusing nothing, receives the bed of a man with no lodging by scattering its seeds. The beginning of a night sleeping in the open.

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