青葉市子 (Ichiko Aoba)
Mars 2027 (English Translation)
Mars 2027

Red ochre rocks
Daydream skies the colour of azuki
Someone's footprints
After the storm
The Earth glows palest blue

The unchanging sun still shines here, too
Dust hangs in the atmosphere
Like money burned up so long ago
How nostalgic

So what do you think, morning star?

The rice in the furoshiki has run out
And I'm bored of counting the meteors
Let me send back this body that cannot decay —
Back to that star
On the far side of eternity