The Dream of Shoji

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     The Dream of Shoji

    Kimiko Hahn, 1955

    How to say milk? How to say sand, snow, sow,

    linen, cloud, cocoon, or  albino?

    How to say page or canvas or rice balls?

    Trying to recall Japanese, I blank out:

    it’s clear I know forgetting . Mother, tell me

    what to call that paper screen that slides the interior in?

      singing, I belie!e I’ll go home.

      "ordy, won’t you help me?#

    $ hoot owl called to the moon

      hemmed in a blackberry thicket,

      % he bowed to the shine o& the gun.

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