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Music box

Music of Japan. Avariciously
From the clepsydra fall drops
Of slow honey or invisible gold
That in time repeat a weft
Eternal and fragile, mysterious and bright.
I fear each one may be the last.
It's yesterday come again. From what temple,
From what slight mountain garden,
From what vigils before a sea I know not,
From what pudor of melancholy,
From what lost and rescued afternoon,
Does it come to me, its remote future?
I shall not know. No matter. In this music
I am. I want to be. I bleed.