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Speaking no Japanese
a day trip to Kamakura began in a ticket line
then shuffled to hold a strap on the train.
People in that section of the crowded car 
quickly moved away leaving me by myself alone.
A grey day brown sand and steel sky
Jizö statues at Hasedera Temple protect and fortify 
the children of stillborn pregnancies and abortions.
The Daibutsu Buddha and surrounding hillsides
are the little mountains from Kawabata
Snow Country
Thousand Cranes
The Lake
The House of the Sleeping Beauties.
Maybe I read on the train’s return
by myself in the empty car.