Simply Haiku: An E-Journal of Haiku and Related Forms
November-December 2004, Volume 2, Number 6

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Fay Aoyagi: Haiku

tiny sour oranges--
a kabuki actor with bleached hair
talks about tradition	the hunter and the hunted--
	a black balloon becomes
	a sky's hole
with the confidence
of catwalk models
hyacinths	the attic
	where silk worms lived
	a shadow with no name
I have learned
to act like them--
peonies	born in a year
	of the monkey
	my trickster life
Snow Moon--
a calligraphy brush stops
in mid air	a box
	of thank-you cards--
	autumn deepens

Fay Aoyagi was born in Tokyo. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1984. She writes haiku in English and Japanese.