“This morning I will not
Comb my hair.
It has lain
Pillowed on the hand of my lover.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XX, p. 22
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
“The night crackled… Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”
— Janet Fitch, book White Oleander
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