the cooing
of a dove by my window --
I try to decipher
the Morse code sent from you
an ocean away
Winter 2009 issue of Concise Delight;
anthologized in 140 And Counting
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
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