きぬぎぬの金魚が死んで浮いてゐるthe morning-after goldfish floats up dead

「きぬぎぬ」は共に夜を過ごした男女が別れる朝のこと。歓楽街の裏の家で迎えた朝、金魚鉢には金魚が死んで浮いていた。ゆうべの華やぎと、朝の白けた光と。死んだ金魚が妙になまなましい。Kinuginu names the morning when a man and woman who have spent the night together must part. In a house behind the pleasure quarter, morning finds the goldfish floating dead in its bowl. Last night's gaiety and the bleak light of morning — the dead goldfish is strangely vivid.