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A Lei
in the Kilauea Crater
by Hideo Yokokawa
Hawaii consisted of the huge cubes and horizons all
around, and the sky expanded towards the unlimited
cubic horizon. And over there, no familiar growth of
vertical cypresses was admitted. Phyllis and I were
standing on the observatory at Kilauea crater. The
lava concealed the furious power and was filled by a
strange calmness killing even the sound of wind.
"Heli's sound is too noisy, Hy"
"Yeah, ..... but it's curiously calm over here,
Phyllis."
Saying, I looked back the crater from the sky to
listen to the calmness of the earth canting my ear
towards the crater.
"Look!, Phyllis, what is that flower in the crater
just below this platform?"
"That's a lei."
"A lei? Was that blown away by the wind, maybe?"
"No."
"..... Oh!, dedicated, then?"
No answer was made by her, but watching the lei, I
felt a sense that she nodded silently standing by my
right side, resting her elbows on the fence and
crossing her hands lightly. Really at that moment, I
did see a huge intersection of horizontality and
verticality - a cross of time and space with that
white lei forming the node. At the same time, I saw
and heard clearly a magnificent drama of the
universe of love and prayer - a grand orchestra of
humanity, nature and the universe. My numbed brain
melted into deep space. Tears that I have never
experienced before flooded my heart in a significant
silence in the earth.
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