Kafka on the Shore

Following lines are from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami:

You sit at the edge of the world,

I am in a crater that’s no more.

Words without letters

Standing in the shadow of the door.

The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,

Little fish rain down from the sky.

Outside the window there are soldiers,

Steeling themselves to die.

Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,

Thinking of the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.

When your heart is closed,

The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx

Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.

The drowning girl’s fingers

Search for the entrance stone, and more.

Lifting the hem of her azure dress,

She gazes –

At Kafka on the shore.