The Three Baskets (2000), The Three Baskets

  
Ten

The yard lamplight has shaped a bell tent
and from the world there's only left
whatever happens to be underneath it -
the bole, the stone tiles and my body.
By turning on the light, abruptly
vanishes from sight the night sky, but remains within me
as an anticipation, until the Ego-light turns off
and it again appears with all its stars and planets,
and thereabouts are also
the bole, the stone tiles and the body.

The small bell tent, hiding the sky.

tr. by Hristianna