Memories Fading Away
In memory of Mary Rising Higgins

I was advised of the death of Mary Rising Higgins
by Jeanne Shannon　who had attended her deathbed.

How many years since then?

Mary was an avant-garde poet who had been
seeking after the absolute sound of language itself
and the sense and consciousness arising from there.
She called it a sound of romance.

Feeling that I have to leave notes somehow or other,
from time to time these days, I took a pen to record
something.

For my writing poems in English,
Mary was one of my teachers of the language.
She gave me a substantial  acoustic sense of English.

Here in my study,
a noble scent of white lilies in a vase is
wafting from the next room.

How many years since then?