Of revelations I can only guess
but I’m the only one alive who can.
My mother, looking from behind the screen
door of our kitchen, slammed it shut and ran
to shelter in her living room and wait
until Samara found her routine state
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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