Call and Response

-----'this sand dune

-----built by the

-----storm last night--

-----whose grave

-----is it...?'

---------------Takuboku

the slow lathe
of the sea
its fashioning
into shapes and
pulp the land

how coolly
the gull
monitors our progress
across
the isthmus!

elsewhere

iron sharpens iron

elsewhere your mouth

deliberates

over mine

the ground 

is unsteady but fertile

again, teacher

you speak to me

of death, of building