Hokku 37
To become tree-man, Oh, songs given back by the winds ! What joy of no-man.
Yone Noguchi
To become tree-man, Oh, songs given back by the winds ! What joy of no-man.
Yone Noguchi’s three-line “Hokku 37” longs for a strange, joyful disappearance. The speaker imagines becoming a “tree-man,” a being halfway between human and tree, rooted in earth but open to air.
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