Thoughts on “A Woman In The Dunes”
In a dune, as a cage
Bitter life, desert sage.
Trace in the sand, disappeared
Wedded land, mind is cleared.
Buried in a hold
A slave to the sand
Digging for existence
She answers with a stare
He hallucinates as if
There’s no one there.
“Why me?” he asks.
“You came to me,” she says.
“What about the others?” he asks.
“You are here,” she says.
[“A Woman In The Dunes” (砂の女) is a novel by Abe Kōbō]
-1990
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