Haiku

for Hugh Hodge

On today’s page an orchard
of haiku, the scent
of freshly picked lemons.

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Lemon-scented words:
today’s harvest of haiku.


Sea fragments

for Hugh Hodge

The story
rewritten, erased,
upon the wrinkled skin
of the sea.

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The appetite of the white
mouth of the sea –
a hunger for words
that will not let him be.

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Tongues of the sea
phrase and rephrase
the young monk’s questions.

 - Eduard Burle

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young monk – some of Hodge’s haiku feature the character or persona of “the old monk”; this figure is often used to explore spiritual, religious or existential themes.