Lila Matsumoto

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Lila Matsumoto. Photo by Elzbieth Nowokowska
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 Poems by Lila Matsumoto
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Yard

Evening spider
             tiny emperor
Casts off on golden thread
over the field of grass.
Slowly
slowly the sky
the briery hedge and four dwarf shrubs
bruise black.
Shirts on the drying line harden
into nightshape.

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