Swallowtail on bloom So many chips on your wings And yet you still fly

Goose honks on the wing, The Great Migration. How sad One must fly solo.

recall from afar fragrance of cherry blossoms— facets of freedom

begging refugee/ in her plastic cup/ so many drops/

planting strawberries in the old riverside garden – dad teaches me how

bowing cedar boughs the sky lisps about my head riding on the wind

Green flash on the deck. Hummingbird darts left and right. Once, twice. No flowers!

Cherry blossoms bloom Pink and white dance through the night. Spring has come. Sakura ga sakimasu pinku to shiro ga yodōshi odorimasu. Harugakita. ( 桜が咲く

second year of war the plum blossoms ask questions no one can answer

winter evening… a blade of green grass in a sparrow’s beak