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Listening to Radio Hong Kong later on I understood:
today was the first day of the lunar new year,
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and for the first time in sixty years
the sign of the dog met the sign of water.
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Out there, eleven thousand miles away,
a single shadow remains immobile
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in the midst of the long moving shadows
that the January light throws over the ground of Tokyo:
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the shadow of the Asakusa bonze.
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For also in Japan the year of the dog is beginning.
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Temples are filled with visitors who come
to toss down their coins and to prayJapanese style