the ashes voiceless go across the water
okotsu koenaku mizu no ue o yuku
1937–1938 · Wartime verses
Sōmokutō · The Home Front (Jūgo)
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The ashes are borne on a boat, crossing over the water. "Voiceless" is surely both the ashes and the people seeing them off. The only thing moving is the surface of the water. Stillness itself has become the shape of the mourning.