Friday, April 10, 2009

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I find another
Looking at a maple leaf
Frozen in snow.
A hundred years apart
We share the same thought!
We jostle the same instant!
Clearly if I want
To read your mind
Reaching out is
The wrong direction.

3 comments:

  1. Now this one, even after a second and third reading, is delightfully elusive: I get the feeling but I can't put it in words. Reminds me of the controversies surrounding the meaning of "Stopping by Fields."

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  2. Willie,

    This might help: Poem was written 20 years ago when I really did come upon a maple leaf frozen in snow. I was immediately reminded of a poem by Masaoka Shiki:

    "Frozen in the ice
    A maple leaf."

    It was one of those moments when linear time sense is compromised by something closer to reality.

    Geo.

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  3. Yes! It's like seeing your response came through at one of my favorite time, 1:11!

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