at the end
of a long, shuffling line
outside
the welfare office
a boy holds his turtle
A Hundred Gourds, 2:3, June 2013
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
Commentary: L1 establishes both the emotional atm...
