How would I feel
if he should say:
“Three hundred miles
have I come–
this loneliness too much to bear”?
Akiko Yosano
tanka #42 in Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami
translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seisha Shinoda
Tanka by Akiko Yosano
March 29, 2012 by Jane Beal
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