Tatami Floor

Baku Yamanoguchi

Various objects appeared on the floor
Where there had been nothing;
As if letters of various figures in the world
Had appeared on a blank sheet, calling
Poetry at the top of their voices.
I, having become a husband, appeared,
Calling, calling, calling, "Married life."
A woman, become a wife, appeared;
A bureau of paulownia wood appeared;
A kettle,
And a brazier,
And a mirror-stand appeared ;
Pots,
Tableware
Have appeared.