There are times when I think life is like a flashlight shone at noon and poetry the shadow that it casts. Tonight is such a night.
Or maybe life is like the hoopla of Super Bowl week and poetry only the game itself.
Or life is monopoly and poetry Go.
Or life if poetry isn’t.
Or if...
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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