Kusanagi

Maybe the Japanese knife man

is going to lift me,

put me in his pocket

like a tiny jade comb,

take me along with him

looking for that lost shoe.

Now I can feel that blue

electric blue light sparking

steel on a yielding stone,

my heart.

Frances E. Vetter

7th February 2010

(Kusanagi is a legendary Japanese sword)

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