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Pittsburgh Haiku Sequence

2021-10-22

№ 444

First day in Pittsburgh
buying stuff for the new house
no time for poems

Best moment of the day
the Tuscan white bean soup
at Zoup's soup kitchen

Everywhere I go
I hear how families
are scattered far and wide

In the Ikea store
of all unlikely places
a haiku by Basho

The temple bell has ceased
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers