summer’s morning:
a child of the poor
drags a head of cabbage
Ippekiro Nakatsuka
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Take in
Give out
Breath after breath after breath
Clear
Clear and open
Or as open as is possible
With the blossom
Less of a food
Than well-fried cabbage
With potatoes and butter
From a child of the poor
To a teenager of the sixties
And now, sixty plus a few years
In the twenty-first century
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan