like a newlywed standing by her wooden mailbox,
like a hungry spider lurking in its dewy net,
like a spring seed breathing under heavy snow,
with fixed attention I’ve been looking
at the end of the winding road
where He is supposed to emerge
winter twilight
between the pages of Job
a wooden cross
Haibun Today, 9:1, March 2015
Butterfly Dream: Court Summons Haiku by John Richard Stephens
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*English Original*
court summons—
I carefully fold it
into a crane
*The Heron’s Nest*, 28:2, June 2026
John Richard Stephens
*Chinese Translation (Tradi...
