[Machine Translation] A woman alone/working and sounding close to 40/leaves me lying on my side and doesn't wake me up/I feel as if a serious illness is my lover. Ishigaki Rin, a poet who worked at a company until retirement and raised a family, survived the postwar world. Her poems reveal her penetrating gaze on loneliness, her powerful blessings that lead women to independence, her anguish between work and life, and her small voice against the war. This anthology, selected from her four books of poetry, has been revived with a new look.