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Aichi Prefecture
The following haiku received the Aichi Prefecture Board of Education Award, chosen by editor Kōko Katō as Kō magazine’s best poem for all of 2017. I originally wrote the poem in September of 2000, and it was first published in Kō 32:4, Autumn–Winter 2017, page 10, and published again, with the award announcement and commentary, in Kō 32:10, #362, Spring–Summer 2018, page 1.
the rabbit’s ears
backlit by a sinking sun—
dry grass swaying
“Clear and delicate expression of the objects which a poet’s senses catch. This is the proper way of objective description of a haiku poem. It differs from a mere report of life experience. ‘backlit by a sinking sun’ is the focal point of this haiku.”
—Kōko Katō, Kō magazine
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