the smell
of our routine silence
dinner time
it begins and ends
with slamming the door:
divorced talk
divorced ...
bed sheets no longer
retain her scent
Failed Haiku, 4:42, 2019
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...
