Teruo Yamagata

Teruo Yamagata

Still the same message on the station message board – remaining coldness                 1983/1984
	someone called to me from the river’s other side gathering of herbs                            1984
unsettled accounts almost seem to multiply think I’ll take a nap                         1997?
	no one comes to see the psychiatric patient wild chrysanthemum                       2000
still clearly marked twenty-fifth anniversary the old calendar                               2001
	the new calendar from the southern hemisphere how shall I hang it?                           2007
astronomical observatory no longer manned snow mountain                                 2011
	all along the coast still several thousand missing look! a shooting star                         2011
my old cat sleeping by the fireside a one-way chat                                  2013
	travelling alone repeating the Buddha’s name through a withered field                   2013

All poems copyright by the author. They are not for any use without explicit permission. A number of these poems have been published in Geppo 2010-2013, Vol XXXV:3-XXXVIII:1. Others have appeared in various YTHS anthologies, 1979-2012.