one last Valentine Day’s post: an old favorite of mine: a tanka by Akahito

I wish I were close
To you as the wet skirt of
A salt girl to her body.
I think of you always.

Suma no ama no
Shio yaki ginu no
Narenaba ka
Hito hi mo kimi wo
Wasurete omowamu

translated by Kenneth Rexroth

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