Aokigahara
...'I'm thinking positive thoughts,'
says the voice from an orange tent
in Suicide Forest.
Since he hanged his alter ego in effigy,
Mr T. Hashimoto has canceled
all his psychiatric appointments.
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Categories:
hashimoto, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Iii
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU III
Spring
stirs the clouds
in the sky's teabowl
—Kikusha-ni, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Tonight I saw
how the peony crumples
in the fire's embers
—Katoh Shuhso...
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Categories:
hashimoto, angst, animal, death, life,
Form: Haiku