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Friday, October 17, 2025

Gembun

this season of my wounded heart

sunset glow
   red leaf
zig
     zagging
into my
      loneliness



FYI: This gembun is written in response to Virginia Woolf 's remark on autumn:

Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul.
(From a letter to Violet Dickinson, c. July 1907)

And for more details about gembun, see To the Lighthouse: Gembun, Untitled Minimalist Haibun