A Message From the Heart: Six Tanforan Poems

Kagirareshi kakoi no naka wo yukiki shite kurasu ni yaya mo nareshi wabishisa
A row of Japanese characters (kanji), translated in the text.
San Bruno, California. Barrack home 
in one of the long lines of converted horse stalls. WRA, June 16, 1942. NARA 537897.

Coming, going, living
inside this enclosure
to which we are constrained
an emptiness to which I have
grown somewhat inured

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