what did you say
he yells at me
staring into my black eyes
he just cannot understand
the English shards
from my bleeding tongue
Autumn 2010 issue Rust+Moth
Poetic Musings: Mother and Ocean Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
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mother I never knew,
each time I see the ocean,
each time --
*The Essential Haiku*, 1995
Kobayashi Issa
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