CDSinex had lived in rural Hokkaido (Japan's northernmost island) for 20 years, and enjoys the challenge of Japanese short-forms as well as the discipline of writing in rhyme and meter. His poems have appeared on Every Day Poets, The Boston Literary Magazine, The Icebox (Kyoto, Japan) , Contemporary Haibun On-Line, and Four and Twenty, among others. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.
We watch the day fade slowly into night,
in silence standing by this open gate.
Afraid, as if to speak would chase the light.
I have to go; you know it's getting late.
...
Carried in,
in the dead of night,
like some smuggler's load.
Lights dimmed, the curtains drawn:
...
Everything we thought we understood,
somehow vanished right before our eyes.
Gone in an instant, the bad, the good…
everything. We thought we understood
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Autumn equinox.
The hills are nearly silent—
A hermit-thrush calls.
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