a plastic bag
whirled by the wind
struggling in mid-air --
my poem is born at the sight
October 2010 issue of Four & Twenty
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...
