“Sunset Song”
That day
Lone orange light
You leapt out the window and sank
Beyond the sea
In shattered glass pieces of you
Asleep under the vision
Candle burning into morning
To meet in dreams maybe
By now
A blazing bird of life
You pierce the darkness in your climb
Up the sky’s edge
Whorling wings enfolding the earth
At the window eyes closed
The hush lasts until tomorrow
To meet in dreams maybe
Jacob’s ladder breaches the clouds
Yvon’s floor drops into the ground
Would that it were you beckoning that day
Asleep under the vision
Candle burning into morning
To meet in dreams maybe
Written by Yuki Okumura on the occasion of the exhibition
“Hisachika Takahashi by Yuki Okumura,” Maison Hermès Le Forum,
Tokyo, 2016, curated by Reiko Setsuda
Translated from Japanese by Andrew Maerkle
(Originally published September 12th, 2016)
