Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 冬眠の蝮のほかは寝息なし　　　金子兜太 tômin no mamushi no hoka wa neiki nashi ??????????? except for ??????????? the hibernating viper ??????????? no breathing in sleep ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tohta Kaneko from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? Tota Kaneko (1919-2018)

Originally posted on Bending moments: ( drifting sands haibun , Issue 13, January 2022)

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: falling snowgrandma calls meby the wrong name January 19, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)

Originally posted on This Lust My Ceaseless Koan: digging for catshit on a cold winter’s morning

Originally posted on SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED: Sunlight Lies 7:18AM. Isolated and immobilized in the room with one small window, one green wall and everything else still gray, everything this early — despite new sunlight — remains faded. Even the icicled, distant sun — three weeks into the new year, half a day past the blizzard…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: cold seasonthe simple sadness?of my hands? stagione freddala semplice tristezzadelle mie mani nevele cose cancellateda ricordare snowthe erased thingsto remember cielo da nevela solitudinedella mia ombra snow skythe lonelinessof my shadow © A.M Andrew Wyeth

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: bodies wrestle with winter winds

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Often seen at my house… pressing all the water from tofu— “The Collected Works of William Shakespeare”