The New Prophecy (part four)
But seriously folks. I’m here
from Passaconaway to say
a few remarks on yesterday.
Salamanders sense the twilight
before the sun has set. But you
don’t want to hear that intuition.
Let’s try another history book—
King Philip’s War—now stop me if
you’ve heard this one before. A man
walks in a bar and asks the bartender
for lands as far as he can see.
There’s just one catch—he wants them free.
~Son Rivers 2005
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...
1 week ago

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