Poems by Yoko Danno

TAKING A CHANCE:

a lollipop & luck in my pocket
i jump on a merry-go-round
with no sense of time or direction

                       *

my mind
is outside my heart unless
whirled in a washing machine


                       *

puffing and panting
high up to the hilltop ascending,
what will i expect to see

― the flat surface of a writhing sea?


ONE CHANCE, ONE MEETING

ping, one chance,
pong, one meeting,
back echoes from the ages of distance

ping, one chance,
pong, one meeting,
back echoes from the walls of difference

one chance,
one meeting,
fragrance of incense wafts to beings

yet unborn

                     ― from a bowl of green tea