Personally
A thousand lives will orbit
your own each day. Each one
complies by laws of nature
distinctive from the ones
your world obeys. So pay
allegiance to the gravity
of your own. But question
even that: don’t let
false airs turn wings to stone.
~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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