Drinking Wine 2—After Tao Chien
The Maze
The thing is this: keep moving
fast as you can navigate
through ways of repetition
and that one interpretation
of the corn. Don’t lose
your ear for vision. Let your eyes
go silent. Taste the ground
and feel the crosswords written in
an alphabet not spoken.
~Son Rivers 2007
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
3 weeks ago

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I really really like this one.
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