the floating leaf
chooses its path around
the island
by not choosing a path
around the island.
Decisions, Decisions… [Tanka]
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Gutted Cathedral [Kyōka]
the old church stands:
proud, tall, and hollowed.
when it’s rebuilt,
will it be another church?
or will it be a shopping mall?
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Towering Temples [Kyōka]
towering temples poke clear of the canopy: to be seen by god above, or not to be seen by people below?
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Pillbox Kitsch [Tanka]
what is this place, with its defensive bunkers on every rise? lasting vestiges of war, so unlike my childhood home.
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Owl? Moth? Owl-Moth [Tanka]
on a tree, the moth looks like a pair of eyes framed in a hidey-hole. on marble steps, the moth just looks like a moth.
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Imposing Clouds [Tanka]
imposing clouds seem to hover over the palace, but then one sees the drift, and they are drifting nearer.
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Living Backwards [Tanka]
young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
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Missing Kittens [Tanka]
a momma cat mews many times to its missing kittens. with each unanswered call, momma grows more insistent.
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Crow Sound [Tanka]
the sharp caw of a crow triggers a monk's enlightenment. a second crow responds. a sailor doesn't look up.
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Garden Lizard [Tanka]
a garden lizard can't resolve whether to scurry, or to be master of all that it surveys?
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