Sunday, April 27, 2025

What Did Those Women Do With the Worldly Rush of Time?

 

Women on those old

Japanese prints float

and bend like willows—,

and, thus, they strike—,

 

And no Western woman

could match this art

of such female samurai—

as if they had known

 

how to tame and slow

and store all time

into a haiku three-

line staying breath—,

 

That makes even

a man’s raging wrath

fall and gently land

as her cherry petal—,

 

Willow rustling softly

as they walk—they are—,

laying so low

the hardest wills—!

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