chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate a moment

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Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment.

    ~ Yosa Buson
    (trs. Robert Hass)



"Mechaieh" means "joy" or "pleasure" in Yiddish. The rest is commentary.



Now available from Dos Gatos Press: Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: the Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar's First Decade (includes two of my poems)

New online: two poems in the Winter 2008-2009 issue of flashquake. There are more of my poems in the archives there (Summer 2008, Spring 2007, Winter 2006-2007, and Winter 2004-2005).

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May 2008
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01: good things (4 comments)
03: the glamour and the laundry (2 comments)
06: from the Dept. of Anti-Pandering, #2 (0 comments)
09: 38 things in/about my life worth celebrating (5 comments)
14: Ripple Effect (0 comments)
17: dwelling on... (0 comments)
20: readings from this past Sunday (2 comments)
20: Stubbornness: All I Cannot Save (3 comments)
22: assorted links to mayhem (1 comments)
23: left, right, left, right... (0 comments)
24: recent glimpses of unconventional wisdom (1 comments)
25: sometimes writing a blurb is harrrrrrrd (0 comments)
30: callings and chores (2 comments)
31: Music Sunday and associated notes (0 comments)


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