National Honour · January 2099
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Aiko Tanaka
🇯🇵 Japan · leading poet of the nation's field
“Cranes at Dusk”
93out of 100
Paper folds remember hands
that folded them and let them go.
The river keeps what no one plans,
a thousand wings, a thousand slow.
From the judges
Spare and exact; the image of folded cranes carries grief lightly, and the restraint is its strength.
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