This poem is taken from PN Review 246, Volume 45 Number 4, March - April 2019.
Four Poems
Three Poems after Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘Insect Musicians’
do not
leave the city
cicadas and crickets
in bamboo cages
eating melon rind
singing about melon
on a spring night
Kiriyama hears
still, small voices
risen from clay
a ghost-song in the jar
where our parents died
...
‘Let us go insect-hunting tonight,’ the poet said.
‘It will be dark and I have many lanterns ready.’
do not
leave the city
cicadas and crickets
in bamboo cages
eating melon rind
singing about melon
on a spring night
Kiriyama hears
still, small voices
risen from clay
a ghost-song in the jar
where our parents died
...
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