A long poetry collection that questions post-September 11 America through jazz, literature, bodily expression, and images of death. Through chains of proper names, it turns a vast nation and a sense of loss into poetic language.

Poetic associations cross the emptiness and loss called America.

A work of poetry whose title evokes textiles and patterns from the Western Regions. It layers foreign color, travel, and memory, connecting longing for distant places with Japanese lyricism.

Like a printed textile pattern, colors and memories of distant lands overlap.

Sho Hayashi's seventh haiku collection. From a late-life perspective, it captures time, age, and everyday scenes in clear haiku language. It was later included in Hayashi Sho Zenkushu.

Within the distance implied by light-years, brief moments of daily life are quietly placed.