Earth slid open.
Poseidon’s waves rose and bit
the seahorse of Japan.
The underworld spit fire.
Kamikaze[1] winds streamed
the terrible news.
Earth’s axis shifted.
The baby dragon[2], in agony, burns.
All across the planet, we bow:
sadness.
Light comes flowing down
from the Milky Way.
(In Paris, all we can think about is Japan.)
[1] Japanese, literally, divine wind. First known use: 1945.
[2] In Japan, they call seahorses baby dragons (in Japanese “tatsuno otoshigo” literally means “baby dragon”).