Loneliness seizes night with its teeth
and growls, I'll eat you up
Savoring the bright moon, flowering trees
my Li Po, my wine cup, and my dreams
until daybreak, it picks its teeth
with the thin threads of faint sunlight
Winter 2010 issue of Rust+Moth
Biting NOT Barking: Flag-Covered Coffin Haiku by Nick Virgilio
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*English Original*
flag-covered coffin:
the shadow of the bugler
slips into the grave
*Selected Haiku*, 1988
Nick Virgilio
*Chinese Translation (Traditi...
