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You Say, "I Will Come" Lady Õtomo no Sakonoe

 

Komo to yu mo
Konu toki aru wo
Koji to yu wo
Komu to wa mataji
Koji to yu mono wo

You say, “I will come.”
And you do not come.
Now you saw, “I will not come.”
So I shall expect you.
Have I learned to understand you?

(excerpt from “The Love Poems of Marichiko”)
Translated from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
From One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
Copyright © 1955
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp

 
 


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