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
AGING PERHAPS, BUT NEVER OLD
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I do not advocate making this kind of hokku a habit, because it tends to
perpetuate the notion of the verse form as a kind of flippant game.
Nonetheless, t...
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