Judy Kendall
Driving to Noto
Men are better says Toshi I know
no they are not says I (I also know)
and so we argue to the tip of Noto
To Suzu where the wood huts slump in shock
plopped suddenly in frocks of snow
the sea whipped to icicles of frenzy
Over a nabe pot of fish and cabbage
(please remember not to call it cabbage
for it is the vastly superior hakusai)
the host asks me my age
Astonished
at my advanced sojourn in spinsterland
he inquires - don't you like men?
So I assure him
only frequent country-moving
has prevented me from choosing
one of them
The returning road is white, wide as a field
the ditches cover themselves with shields of frosting
the windscreen blanks out like a blizzard
Mid-winter hangs in the boughs
balances on telephone wires
Toshi scrapes at the iced-up wipers singing
to himself, waving me back in
The pine trees are bent nearly in two
laden with second helpings
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