shut into itself the wild camellia blooms and drops
onore ni komoru yabutsubaki saite wa ochi
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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The wild camellia drops whole, its flower-shape intact, with a soft plop. Blooming as if shut into itself, it falls. He sees himself, shut up in his hut, overlapping with the camellia in the thicket's shade. A spring that silently repeats blooming and falling.