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
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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