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Article: A SHOAL OF HAIKU (II).(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Landing on a lemon
blossom, the bee knocks off
a white waxen petal.
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Yellow flames in rice
paper--Chinese lanterns in
the gooseberry bush.
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A token of health--
a white quick in a pink nail--
the moon at sunset.
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As I stroll the still
evening, a mongrel dog
bounds out barking.
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Mistaking a street
light for a full moon, magpies
carol at midnight.
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Where last evening we
scaled the fish, unmelted in
the morning sun, hail.
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Aspic--small jelly
fish with a still smaller fish
in its jellybowl.
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Several pelicans
on the pier, like enormous ...