While cleaning my family’s place in Chula Vista, my brother stumbled upon a few writing assignments from when I was in first and second grade.
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Rain
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on feild and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas hear,
And on ships at sea.
[January 30, 1981. Second grade. A literal drawing of the poem is [...]
(These poems were written in January 2007. The second part was published in 2008 by Meritage Press as part of The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II [available here]. Because it’s part of a set, I’m publishing the entire long poem here for the first time. More below the cut.)
sane motif.
a soft mein.
me so faint.
i smote fan.
aims often.
sea of mint,
of inmates.
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