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
A THOUSAND HILLS
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Masaoka Shiki — the fellow who attempted to “reform” hokku into what he
called “haiku” near the beginning of the 20th century — wrote a lot of bad
verses, ...
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