noon sunlight
in the shower’s rhythm
white chrysanthemum

 

 

 

(Originally published in The Mainichi Haiku in English
November 4, 2014)

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martin gottlieb cohen

Martin Cohen was born in the South Bronx somewhere on Simpson Street, went to a Yeshiva on East Broadway and Canal Street, and then lived in the South of Brooklyn, the South of Long Island, The Southern Tier of Upstate New York, The South of Manhattan, and finally South Jersey in Egg Harbor.

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    A neat haiku where that glorious middle line is the actual 'aha!' A great example of not just a 'pivot line' but the strong focus of the poem need not always be the opening or closing line. Those lines feel enhanced by that hinge effect we have of 'in the shower's rhythm'.

    noon sunlight
    in the shower’s rhythm
    white chrysanthemum

    —MARTIN GOTTLIEB COHEN
    The Mainichi (Japan) November 2014

    ***

    I stumble over the word
    as if an awkward goodbye
    chrysanthemums

    Alan Summers
    Asahi Shimbun (Japan) October 2019

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