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Jim Kacian

What Remains

          first flurry—
          all the angles
          of the air

Words keep drifting in and piling up, kitterwhack, as though they were the experience itself, instead of being the fine grit left behind when the wet and white and cold have departed, what we scrub away each spring.

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About the Author

Jim Kacian is founder and president of The Haiku Foundation as well as chairman of its board; founder and owner of Red Moon Press; and editor in chief of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013).