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I Shall Emerge!

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Crocussen in bloom, Amsterdam

Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937), Japanese poet and haiku pioneer writes:

初雷や　ふるふが如き　雛の壇

Hatsu-rai ya/ Furuu ga gotoki/ Hina no dan

The first thunder

Is likely to shake

The tiered doll stand.

I feel that way about spring. As the heads of the first crocuses crown on my street I want to let out a guttural shriek, a battlecry, that says, “I am not done, yet!”

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