A Footptint
Long ago
a fox ran along a clay river bank.
After an interim
of tens of thousands of years
a footprint turned fossil remains.
Looking at it, you'll see
what the fox was thinking while running.
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by Shinjiro Kurahara
from Iwana
publisher, Dowaya, Tokyo, 2010
translation byMariko Kurahara, William I. Elliott, Katsumasa Nishihara
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