since we parted it snows every single day
wakarete kara no mainichi yuki furu
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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Since parting from someone, it has gone on snowing every day. As if the falling snow were counting the days, it piles up the time since the day of parting. The all-hiragana surface of the poem runs in tune with the hushed stillness of the snow.