Viceroyalty
Haliburton spoke
to red Elizabeth
today. The whooping cranes
are in the willows. Send
the pillows softly and
forget the coffee stains
completely; I will need
the old Mercator maps
as soon as you discover
Argentina. Turn
your wheel around and face
the mirror in the sea.
It looks like Queen Anne’s lace
in sensitivity.
~Son Rivers Jr. 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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