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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