mother waits
for me across the ocean
I dream
of her under the same moon
but age with this distance
Shreve Memorial Library's Electronic Poetry Network.
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...
