Japan by Billy Collins

Today I pass the time reading

a favorite haiku,

saying the few words over and over.



It feels like eating

the same small, perfect grape

again and again.



I walk through the house reciting it

and leave its letters falling

through the air of every room.



I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it.

I say it in front of a painting of the sea.

I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf.



I listen to myself saying it,

then I say it without listening,

then I hear it without saying it.



And when the dog looks up at me,

I kneel down on the floor

and whisper it into each of his long white ears.



It's the one about the one-ton temple bell

with the moth sleeping on its surface,



and every time I say it, I feel the excruciating

pressure of the moth

on the surface of the iron bell.



When I say it at the window,

the bell is the world

and I am the moth resting there.



When I say it at the mirror,

I am the heavy bell

and the moth is life with its papery wings.



And later, when I say it to you in the dark,

you are the bell,

and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,



and the moth has flown

from its line

and moves like a hinge in the air above our bed.

by Billy Collins

Regards to the Japanese people effected by the tsunami and earthquake. I hope everything turns out amazing. Which i expect it will. The Japanese people are a resilient population. I hope good things come your way.

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