Monday, April 23, 2012

In Spring

Gathering pea shoots,
I recall your green silk dress
and cold jade necklace.

5 comments:

  1. Such riches. This fragile delicacy of the speaker, sensitive to the point of pain ... it cuts like a knife. A gorgeous knife.

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  2. It's been a while since I read such a beautiful and evocative haiku. Echoing Ruth's comment, this can cut so many different ways.

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  3. this moment of perception seems to open an entire world, a door that lets memory spill into the present ... you do with so few words, only the perfect ones :-)

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  4. it is full but it is so right that i want more. it is ripe with story. i'm greedy.

    xo
    erin

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  5. This is fantastic. It let's the reader imagine different perspective and so many of them! :) My first visit to your blog and I am loving it!

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