Continuum
Before Son Rivers, I
believed I knew myself
a personality
as callow as leaflets, as
emotional as iron.
Little I knew that ages
ago, I exercised photo-
synthesis, and eons
from now, I’ll try oxidizing.
~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, ...
4 days ago

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