Contributor: Joyce Joslin Lorenson

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Tokyo mist
a steady drip
from tiled roofs

riding the train
rain meets us
at the station

patter of rain
on our umbrella
counting koi

at Buddha's feet
the sun dips
behind Kamakura hills

fragrant moon
through sliding shoji
the smell of new tatami


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Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home. She has been published in several print and electronic journals.