Winter approaches
like the long shadow
of a breathtakingly great prehistoric bird
flying overhead. It flaps its wings
and leaves scatter.
~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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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