this bright moon what place is it bombing now
tsuki no akarusa wa doko o bakugeki shite iru koto ka
1937–1938 · Wartime verses
Sōmokutō · The Home Front (Jūgo)
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The moon overhead is so very bright. Is this same moon, even now, lighting some battlefield somewhere, where bombing is being carried out beneath it? A quiet moonlit night and distant fires of war are joined by a single light. The imagination of a wartime night that cannot be turned off.