“Dear Future Me” is a series in which Shohei Koyama—poet and owner of JIYUCHO — delivers poetic words in Japanese and English, like letters to his future self that trace the subtleties of everyday life. I hope this becomes a place like your mailbox where postcard poems arrive.

Echo

Echo

Each word ages me

I listen again today

to what has no shape

the plane’s distant hum

the wind’s soft tone