sultry heat — living things within living things
mushiatsuku ikimono ga ikimono no naka ni
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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It is sweltering. Insects, grasses, people — living things pressed together, and he too is among them, one more living thing. The heat fuses every life into a single continuous whole.