my nephew
doesn't let me hold his hand
first day of spring
Finalist, the 2010 Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition
published in Paper Wasp, 17: 2, June 2011
and anthologized in Moonrise and Bare Hills
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...
