In dim light, I half listen to myself singing Are you Lonesome Tonight? on YouTube, hour after hour ...
quarantined
in a world of detached others
I elbow-bump
this drunken shadow
on the attic wall
Hearts' Poetry, 4, June 2022
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...
