Seven Variations of The Same Haiku
The wind is blowing.A flower loses its scent.Silence is blowing.The wind is blowing.A flower loses petals.Silence is falling.Silence is blowing.A new flower is blooming.Wind loses silence.Wind is flowering.Silence loses its silence.Petals are silent.The wind is falling.Silence loses a petal.The wind is silenced.Flowers are blowing.The scent is never silent.Silence is a scent.Silence is falling.Silence loses its petals.I am the still wind.
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Copyright © 2020 by Ariel N. Banayan
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Ariel N. Banayan is an Iranian Jewish writer born and raised in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Foothill Journal, Guesthouse Lit, and the Emerge Literary Journal. He is currently a graduate fellow at Chapman University’s dual MA/MFA degree program, where he teaches a class on the rhetoric of memory to first-year students.
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