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One edge
hanging over the mountain--
the Milky Way

---Shiki
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a yellow leaf rocks
on a current of air
over the hard road

October 2008

2 comments:

Dennis Tomlinson said...

I wrote this haiku a year ago and I still like it. It has something to do with Macbeth's words as he faces the end (Act V, Scene 3):

I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf

Area 17 said...

Thanks for the note here, it's great when there's a footnote to enjoy too! ;-)

Alan
Area 17
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