the voices — surely people working this moonlit night
koe wa masashiku tsukiyo hataraku hitobito da
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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On a moonlit night there are voices. He cannot see the speakers, but those voices belong, beyond doubt, to people working late into the night. He listens from afar, as if confirming the sound of labor beneath the moon.