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
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...
3 weeks ago
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