beneath cypress trees
stands a small pagoda;
top tier damaged
by storm-dropped limbs;
it won't outlast those trees.
Yielding [Tanka]
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malformed tree
stands rigid against
a Summer gust.

caterpillars
on each branch;
leaves, but memories.

sapling grows in boulder,
splitting it in twain;
paper does beat rock.

pine cone wedged
in a rotten sleeper,
on derelict tracks,
may become a tree
and made into sleepers.