Alvin B. Cruz teaches English at a university in Manila. His haiku have won awards in different international haiku competitions and were nominated for the Touchstone Awards, Best of the Net, and The Red Moon Anthology. He is the author of Sunsets Are Sonnets and Other Poems, Written on Water, and Paper Cranes.
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I liked this poem for being nicely rounded off…a walk by rice fields followed by a drink made of fermented rice. There is a sense of peace and achievement in its simplicity.
This poem strikes me as potentially problematic.
I liked this poem for being nicely rounded off…a walk by rice fields followed by a drink made of fermented rice. There is a sense of peace and achievement in its simplicity.
Wouldn’t it be nice
to have some fermented rice?
One cup would suffice!