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Book of the Week: Cough of a Sloth – Haiku by Canadian Poet Claudia Radmore

From the Writer’s Union of Canada – Claudia Radmore’s lyric poetry has been published in Psychopoetica and Acta Victoriana. Her work in Japanese form has been published internationally, and she is known as an editor for these forms. In lyric poetry, Claudia won the 2009 National Capital Canadian Author’s Award for Poetry. Be sure to check out Claudia’s poetry and photography on her website.

dear sweetie pie my friend feelings deep down I desire

overprotective sleeping words my neurons need to talk

tears in the eyes of fishes cherry blossom rain

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  2. Thanks again Dan for a very varied diet.

    Bending the mind until it breaks. The paradigm line:

    body brain ectothermic toast

    Yeah!
    Another caught my attention:

    tears in the eyes of fishes cherry blossom rain

    A honkadori. Basho got there first:
    yuku haru ya / tori naki uo no / me wa namida
    spring departing
    birds cry and in the fishes’
    eyes are tears

    Reichold comments diplomatically: “Some scholars grapple with the idea of fish having tears, but if one considers that the eyes of fish are always wet, the simile works.”

    Keep ’em coming!

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