Sleep
We wake from nightmares half-
asleep and deeply conscious
we’ve been dreaming life
away. Still weary though,
we know we need to sleep
again, towards reverie
instead this time, angelic
revelations. Else,
return to living dead.
~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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