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We present this work in honor of the poet’s 120th birthday.

Shinkichi Takahashi
Japanese
1901 – 1987

I don’t take your words
Merely as words.
Far from it.

I listen
To what makes you talk
Whatever that is
And me listen.

Translation by Lucien Stryk and Takahashi Ikemoto

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