Japanese Hokku 4
What if the wind blows? What if the leaves are scattered, Now that they are dead?
Lewis Alexander
What if the wind blows? What if the leaves are scattered, Now that they are dead?
Lewis Alexander’s three-line poem reads like a worried thought arriving in autumn. The speaker asks what will happen if the wind blows and the dead leaves scatter. On the surface, it is a simple seasonal image: leaves that have already died are now at the mercy of the next gust.
Les hele sammendraget