she finger-writes
those three words on my chest . . .
the sting
of the promise
my ex failed to keep
Atlas Poetica, 24, 2016
Butterfly Dream: Summer Nights Haiku by Masaoka Shiki
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*English Original*
how much life
is left to me --
brief, these summer nights
*Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan*, 2018
Masaoka Shiki
*Chinese...