the train whistle
echoing in the distance
the Stars and Stripes
flapping in the wind…
the lost look in her eyes
Published in Sketchbook, 7:3, May/June 2012
To the Lighthouse: Ideal of the Bunjin (“Scholar-Amateur”)
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*Despite the fact haikai was a native Japanese poetic genre, it was closely
linked with the world of sinophile intellectuals that flourished in [the
eighte...
