rest stop
after 90 miles of desert
the way green feels

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Billie Wilson

Billie Wilson discovered haiku in the late 1960s, and writing haiku-shaped poetry became a very enjoyable, but solitary, activity for the next 20 years. Thereafter, through discovery of the worldwide haiku community -- and learning that haiku had evolved considerably since her introduction to it ? haiku has become a central part of Billie's life.

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  1. I asked myself – why it's always like that, why we always really appreciate something after we lost it, for a while, or even for ever? Why we can deeply appreciate "the way green feels" – whatever it means in our lives, only after we spend some time in the desert – whatever it means in our lives, as well. And the only explanation I find (for now?) is that – if everything would be continually so intense like "green" in this haiku, in our life, maybe it would be too hard, even impossible, to stand it? Maybe.

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