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Japan
Sometimes they stomp and as a vessel of water
splashes whenever it sits beside a ruckus
so the earth's movements are followed by a wave
that sweeps away all by the sea: houses, trees,
even the rocky sides of hills and mountains.
Sometimes they poke their lips out some old cave
then blow, provoking another set of waves
while scouring the tops of mountains both through the wind
and through the heavy rainclouds that it nets.
Sometimes the rows that invariably brew between
these buried giants lead to the spilling of blood
which bursts on the surface as an oozing flame.
For what did they move beneath the earth, ensuring
eternal life in the face of the deeper changes
that we their diminutive cousins deliver? Not even
the wisest among them can solve this direst of problems.
Sometimes they stomp and as a vessel of water
splashes whenever it sits beside a ruckus
so the earth's movements are followed by a wave
that sweeps away all by the sea: houses, trees,
even the rocky sides of hills and mountains.
Sometimes they poke their lips out some old cave
then blow, provoking another set of waves
while scouring the tops of mountains both through the wind
and through the heavy rainclouds that it nets.
Sometimes the rows that invariably brew between
these buried giants lead to the spilling of blood
which bursts on the surface as an oozing flame.
For what did they move beneath the earth, ensuring
eternal life in the face of the deeper changes
that we their diminutive cousins deliver? Not even
the wisest among them can solve this direst of problems.