impermanence is only

Late August cool and now
Mid-April sun appearing
in a slant of vision
prophesizing earth’s
impermanence is only
something seasonal.






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
reformatted from original twitter for twitterku

the shock and now

houseboat on
the dawning river
all its sun
umbrellas opened
for the shock
and now of day






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
reformatted and revised from original twitter

tree remains

yellow leaves
now intermingle
with the green—
the tree remains
as new as ever






~Son Rivers
reformatted from original twitter