35. fractured stanza

[07.13.2020]

(5)/(3)   sudden cardinal / sudden flame

(6)/(2)   my son spins cartwheels in / damp grass

(4)          oblivious

(6)          trimming my father’s hair

(4)          both of us masked

(4)          in the backyard

 

Trimming my father’s hair, both of us

masked, (in the backyard)— my son

spins cartwheels in damp grass

oblivious

 

è  sudden cardinal

è                  sudden flame

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in the backyard,

                                trimming my father’s hair, with both of us

masked— my son

spins cartwheels in dampgrass

                oblivious

                                sudden cardinal, sudden

                                flame

 

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What was to be a haikusentence has become something other. It lingers, a fractured stanza—and yet, despite its brevity, still too long for traditional Japanese form. A moment from this summer.

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