Stillness
Voices inside my ears!
The boy I was who fears
first grade soon tears at me.
The adolescent lost
in sere self-consciousness
still reappears high noon.
That husband, now divorced,
avoids and jeers June love.
Pray soon I overhear.
~Son Rivers 2006
FROM RHYTHM TO STRESS IN HOKKU
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Most of you already know the notion that hokku is seventeen syllables
arranged in a 5/7/5 pattern is wrong. Many people were taught that in
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