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Halfway through a first reading.

neither the prose
nor the poem will tell
my feelings
that day that time
from heart to heart

#244 a girl with tangled hair

It is really hard to rate translated poetry. The primary translator is a poet herself. This is the only complete English translation of Yosano Akiko’s “Tangled Hair” poetry cycle/collection. Each translated poem becomes a new poem that hopefully captures the sense of the original.

te quiero akiko

You are a child of sin and so am I.