BC7. Say the Apostles' Creed
I believe in raw
belief, the ungrown green
locomotive channeling
the crash
and cymbals of Apollo,
as inciting
Dionysus doesn’t die,
but rises
above white pines, to rocket
towards our June
of universe and native
pumpkin zen—
and sit within that burnt
bend of this pen.
~Son Rivers 2005
AGING PERHAPS, BUT NEVER OLD
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I do not advocate making this kind of hokku a habit, because it tends to
perpetuate the notion of the verse form as a kind of flippant game.
Nonetheless, t...
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