Emotions
After the flood, the river
forgives the rain for falling,
and the land forgives
the river for rising. The sun
reflects on everything
transpired and calls it a day.
The next day nothing remains
except the recollection
a watermark has made.
~Son Rivers 2006
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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