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THIS WORLD OF DEW …
by Michael R. Burch

In their haiku the Oriental masters of the form frequently used dew as a metaphor for the transience of life. Some of these poets have used dew metaphorically in a jisei (a type of death poem sometimes called a 'zen death poem') … but then I discovered to my surprise that I had used dew in similar ways quite frequently in my own poetry …
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