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
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
2 weeks ago
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