Wednesday 12 June 2019

Nan Lian sequence

Nan Lian gardens
composing
cicada haiku

temple rainwater
dripping
dripping

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Nan Lian cafe
the waitress
reads her Buddha book

bonsai trees
tortured
into obedience

Published by Poetry Pea 15 July 2019

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