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      May 25, 2015Three HaikuJee Leong Koh

      wind, unpin
      the dead butterflies
      from the tree

       

       

       

      the rain changes
      to snow then to rain
      the bus is here

       

       

       

      spring wind
      I can go left
      or right

      from #47 - Spring 2015

      Jee Leong Koh

      “I started writing zuihitsu first and published a collection titled The Pillow Book, after Sei Shōnagon. Writing zuihitsu gave me the freedom to append a haiku or a tanka to a passage of prose. I loved the movement from the discursiveness of prose to the distillation of poetry. Then I discovered that one can obtain that relaxed concentration in a haiku alone.”