Hokku 36
But the march to Life . . . Break song to sing the new song! Clouds leap, flowers bloom.
Yone Noguchi
But the march to Life . . . Break song to sing the new song! Clouds leap, flowers bloom.
Yone Noguchi’s three-line hokku opens mid-thought, as if answering some discouraged voice: “But the march to Life . . .” The ellipsis holds the sentence open for a moment, then the next line delivers a command—“Break song to sing the new song!” The old song has to be broken, not just set aside, so…
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