decades later
a journal she left
my unknown mother
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J. Zimmerman
J. Zimmerman's haiku, tanka, and haibun have been widely published and anthologized. She was one of seventeen invited poets in the 2013 "New Resonances" haiku anthology. She has been a prize winner in the Tokutomi Haiku Contest. She is currently co-editing Ariadne's Poetry Web (http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne) and failing to learn Japanese.
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Beautiful poem.
Poignant.
Brilliantly done!
I could see this one in a series with Tracy Davidson's poem from yesterday – very poignant.
marion
poignant
So utterly poignant.
warmest regards,
Alan
turning into the thermals
unknown birds
into white then dark again
Alan Summers
Azami #26 (Japan, 1998)