Traduite en chinois, par Yin Xiaoyuan, la voici en anglais traduite par moi – j’hésite sur le titre à donner à ma traduction, je pense au premier vers
How to find you in all this ocean
without your song
this threne like a mermaid’s train
the silent echo from the seabed
the trace of the notes of silence
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Onagawa: a small fishing port on the eastern coast
of Japan – Miyagi Prefecture.
Four hundred kilometers northeast of Tokyo,
in the hollow of one of the narrow valleys
a dense knotty network bordered by steep hills
meandering to the Pacific shore -
crenellation of coves
and ocean blue cobalt bays
which set like a pearl
Onagawa.
