crystallize the dew in cold breezes
as it does over tiny Kyoto roads
into a chilled Nijo-jo Castle moat
rippling green lichen to its stormy sides
looking like raked lines of pebbles
around Shitennoji Temple, Osaka
lines of sunshine in Golden Pavilion pond
shingled roof of Buddah Hall in Todaiji, Nara
far from the melted exhaustion
of deep-fried Taichung night markets
like smoke from rice-stalk bonfires, rising slowly
shrouding mountains in smog-saturated air
obscuring the fine gal she would become
a widowed bride's dalliance
upon remarriage
Dec. 19, 2016
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