A Loon; A Sea (part one)
It was an angry sea that day
but loons were laughing in its face
and poking at its eye, diving
to that deep and hidden place
where calmer waters fill the brain
with something from the zen of Maine.
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
3 days ago

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