the 31st tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
Ajax night
and Taipei morning...
New Year's blue moon
in the bedroom window
of my childhood house
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
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...
