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"Beyond the Borderline."

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Two definitions-- tanzaku--

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traditional Japanese poem
label gifted to a friend

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or tied outside a temple.

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Ginkgo-- traditional Japanese
practice to be walking,

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to be composing poetry.

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"Allowing new thoughts
to flourish in the verges

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and catch on briars,
I wind a few words

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around the stalks of
plated bog grasses

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and green rushes hooking the
knot over the spike pulling

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the bow tie on the seat
head aiming the camera.

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A poem is left among catkins
and leaves of alder and rowan

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to be found and undone,
whether from love or disliking,

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or left for the sun and rain
to seasonally fade them.

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But where or when?

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There was nothing to be said.

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We folded the taper of a
paper wish around the branch

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silently saying over the names
of the dead and the living

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or bravely doing their dying."

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