Verso
Past Blake and innocence,
I dream an aspen quaking
in experience,
its argent parchments forgetting
they are silver leaves,
believing to be gray
decreed and regulation-
sized—until a sounder
wind can turn the pages.
~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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