14/17ths Of A Haiku Pounded Without Verbs

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ezra Pound

(1913)

IN A STATION OF THE METRO

He lived to the ripe
old age of
eighty-seven years
plus
two days

This page was inspired by
a distinguished
Long Beach poet  

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