Status Updates From Poetry of Ryuichi Tamura

““The person who writes a poem/resembles a little the person who plays piano/Before his brain chooses the key/a hand is already moving/The hand is leading him/The hand is captured by sound and cannot escape from it/That's why the hand is struggling to that degree/The sound guides the hand/as the hand tries to escape from the sound it drags him along to where” p. 144

In Praise of the Eye

...If it does not die
there will be no resurrection
for the things that were seen by your eyes
there will be no revival for your eyes
that were penetrated by those things

p. 143

“Perhaps a great poem/might be faster than the speed of light/Because of that human beings/invade the present from the future/and the past from the present” p.136