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Cover: Soft Evening on the Shore by Lauri Burke • |
Year's End If I lose myself in breathing,
will the air forgive my forgetfulness? This oak, too, will stand long after
the last train exits the tunnel. I worry that my friend may never
clamber past his lowest ambition. Different and unabated, our words
now stumble over themselves. Every night forms a morning somewhere:
each year, combined in our shared darkness. •
Robert Okaji © 2018
Nominated for Pushcart Prize
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Forever Our dogs hide under the bed, But the sun shatters we will live forever. every day, another join the wind is what we make, •
Robert Okaji © 2018
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Cover: ‘Beach Cairn’ by John Repoza:
http://john-repoza.artistwebsites.com
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In Praise of Rain Which is not to say lightning or hail.
Sometimes I forget to open the umbrella until my glasses remind me: Wake up,
you're wet! If scarcity breeds value, what is a thunderhead worth
in July? A light shower in August? Even spreadsheets can’t tell us.
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Robert Okaji © 2015
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Cover: City of Dreams - Snow Moon
by Lauri Burke
— “These are adaptations of Chinese poems -
five from the Tang Dynasty, and one
from the Song. I call them adaptations
rather than translations because I neither
read nor speak Chinese, and have used
transliterations to produce these versions.”
- Robert Okaji
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Parting from Wang Wei (after Meng Haoran)
These quiet days are ending
and now I must leave. I miss my home’s sweet grasses but will grieve at parting – we’ve eased each other’s burdens on this road. True friends are scarce in life. I should just stay there alone, forever behind the closed gate. •
Robert Okaji © 2016
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