CONTENTS
Modern Japanese Literature
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Author: Akiko Yosano (1878-1942)
Year: n.a.
Mouse
In my attic dwells a mouse.
The creaking noise he makes
Reminds me of a sculptor who carves
An image all night long.
Again when he dances with his wife,
He whirls like a racehorse, round.
Through the attic dirt and dust flutter down
On this paper as I write.
How would he know?
But I stop to think:
I am living with mice.
Let them have good food
And a warm nest.
Let them drill a hole in the ceiling and,
From time to time, peep down on me.
From Modern Japanese Literature
Ed. Donald Keene
(?1956)
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