Mid-September, Newburyport Harbor
From shore I watch the empty passage;
all the boats are moored in harbor.
Two blue herons fill the morning
chill with inescapable wing spans.
River grass is turning brown.
The goldenrod is going down.
~Son Rivers 2008
A THOUSAND HILLS
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Masaoka Shiki — the fellow who attempted to “reform” hokku into what he
called “haiku” near the beginning of the 20th century — wrote a lot of bad
verses, ...
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