kamikaze quotes

Her father embarked at sunrise /

with a flask of water, a samurai sword

like a huge flag waved one way /

then the other in a figure of eight

the loose silver of whitebait and once /

a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

only we children still chattered and laughed /

till gradually we too learned / to be silent

and sometimes, she said, he must have wondered /

which had been the better way to die.