.
a happy girl
plays cards on the train
her eloquent face
.
haiku: low-banked cloud…
.
low-banked cloud
aslant the flatland
other worlds
.
haiku: those dull buffoons…
.
those dull buffoons
who would darken the heavens
our suns ever wheeling
.
haiku: cabbages…
.
cabbages
rows and rows in the garden
who eats ’em
.
haiku: weeds…
.
weeds
the fallen shelters huts and towns
strange empty plots
.
tanka: ghosts of strange words…
.
ghosts of strange words
sometimes touch his seven-years lips
par-si-mo- nious
yet though the small words falter
deep grammars shout out fear or joy
.
haiku: kind old Mussulman…
.
kind old Mussulman
sips coffee from a paper cup
shoppers’ “Greasy Spoon”
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