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Cycling to the office

I didn’t see it in time—

caught a butterfly in the spokes.

From the Icebox inbox 4

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Down Genju-an’s mossy steps

Still damp with typhoon rain;

Like walking on ice………………………(Ted Taylor, in Shiga)

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good timing: returned to

cool rain falling on friends’

heated brows: I laugh.……………….(Richard Steiner, in Kyoto)

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Rowing in the street -

As I walk past, they both stop

To ask for a light.………………………..(Kamome, in England)

lX (b)

 

deep in the ricefield

the small boys

surround their frogs

 

fireworks;

the facade on the love hotel

resembles a circus tent