for Jeanne Shannon
When I got to 50 years old
I wondered
how far I could go.
For a long time
before getting to 60 years old,
I've been thinking that I would go
stoutly to any extent
when I got to 60.
Since after last year,
the matter began to urge me,
and I've finished this monument with you
just prior to my age of 60.
Now I feel
I've done.
Thinking of the fortuity and happiness of
the unexpected meetings
also, thinking that
my journey
to Caesar and Buddha is
from this time forth.
(Sooner or later)
< I'll float
off my stem
and go >
( In
commemoration of our Bilingual Book of Poetry
"Carrying Water in a Sieve" )