Sublime

Streaming in through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.

A little after two, we made it back to Minowa, the closest station to my place. Stopping along the way for a 210-yen bowl of noodles, we braved the heat and walked the ten minutes home, while the cries of cicadas smeared the atmosphere.

zelkova tree

We grew up on the third floor of a little apartment building near the ocean. Just two rooms, one more cramped than the other, no wall or anything between them. Izakaya on the ground floor.

Es ist später Abend in unserm Stadtwald, leise wispert das Laub in der lauen Sommerluft und aus der Ferne tönt das Geschwirr der Feldgrillen bis unter die Bäume.