The X-ray Photo of My Hand (Poem)
The X-ray Photo of My Hand by Tadami Yamada Recently my left hand was injured a little bit Nothing serious, but I'd a doc to make sure of it The doctor said, " You ought to have a X-ray taken For a possibility heavier than it looks, plain-spoken" The X-ray photograph of my hand I saw first time O what I say? as a painting artist, as a god's mime Thinking the fruits in hand to be lost under the knife White bones in black, the image of death and life! My hand on photo was as if it showed adumbration Like a ghost that suddenly appeared in dark ocean Or also like a raft steering through the rough seas White bones were constructed in closely; no disease The white raft of bones drifting about dreamlands Surely returned to "canvas" to check the life's sands Countless drift any longer, panting under heavy load Sometimes I felt like crying, or finding life's road Or I imagined woods of bones in the dark of flesh That would be remained after my body would peri...
