Wednesday, April 9, 2025

A coyote poem

 I love short poems based on a vivid image. Maxine Hong Kingston has a lovely one:

A coyote on hind legs
at the bird bath. Water
to the brim please.

 

It’s part of a cycle of haiku in Poetry Magazine. In an introduction, Fred Marchant said Kingston had indicated she would like to leave behind a collection of haiku in the manner of Richard Wright. I like Wright’s book and hope Kingston is working on hers.

• Source: Maxine Hong Kingman, “Malu Cycles”; Poetry Foundation, April 1, 2025. It’s here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1661174/malu-cycles-ma-lu-xun-huan

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