アメリカ1

アメリカ西海岸へ
TO THE WEST CORST OF USA

             寝屋川 十河 智
             Tomoko Sogo,Neyagawa

一 関西国際空港              
 1   Kannsai International Air Port

 桜桃忌無邪気の旅に出づるべし
       the apricot anniversary
       of Osamu Dazai: Let's start
       artless journey to USA
 夏のシャツ刻限が来て友の顔
       changed a woman
       of summer shirt to my freind;
       time was up to meet
 夏天行く搭乗の機の雄姿見ず
       Not seeing a gallant figure
       of the Jombo flight: I
       pass the summer sky
 アイスティ飲み干し昨日まで眠る
       drank up a cup of iced tea;
       had I a sleep
       until YESTERDAY should come

二 ロス・アンゼルス  
 2   Los Angeles

 日米の時差飛行せる夏の昼
       differences between Osaka and LA:
       both departure and arrival
       were in the summer daylight
 アメリカや日の夏パーム・ツリー立つ
       on West coast of USA,
       palm trees stand simply
       under the glaring sunbeams
 プリーズとオレンジジュースドルの札
       Californian Orange juice:
       used a dollar bill
       and a word "PLEASE"
 整然とヨットマリナ・デル・レイ光る
       Marina Del Rey:
       shines with sunlight;
       yachts at moorage in good order
 片蔭すマリン・ブルーと白のリゾート
       Marine Blue and White:
       Sunshine and Shade:
       forms a great resort
 夏負けにあらずコーンビーフ嵩高し
       susceptible:
       not to the heat in summer;
       to the bulk of corned beef
 頼まれてゐしコーチ買ふ夏の色
       A COACH bag ; chose
       a color of this season:
       in all summery tints
 ハリウッド誇示も乾きて夏の山
       ostentatious display
       gigantic age-old "HOLLY WOOD"
       on the dry hill of summer
  朝涼に夕涼にツアー離合あり
       mornings and nights
       in coolness, tourists were
       gathered and separated for spontaneity  
 憧れのアメリカなりきサンセット
       long for America
       from old sixty's story,
       drive on Sunset Boulevard
  倒産の店ばかりなり夏夕暮れ
       closed by bankrupt,
       are all the stores arround -
       in the evening of summer
 風涼しブールヴァードとアヴェニュと
       a softly cool breeze:
       stood where Boulevard and Avenue
    crossed each other
  夏没り日ロゴを見慣れしデニーズへ
       summer sun in the west:
       a familiar logotype "Denny's"
       tempted us to Denny's   
 バーガーを買い慣れにけり日の盛り
       under a blazing sky
       a cheese-burger and coke
       acclimated to a burger shop