POET OF THE WEEK
Sharon Hashimoto
Week of May 18
HOME TASTES LIKE Ozoni. A Japanese vegetable soup with mochi served up on New Year’s Day.
IF I COULD DO ANYTHING I’D Swim.
PERSONAL MOTTO Be curious.
He hates diamond-shaped wire
cutting everything he sees.
What felled trees, memories
of the wife ladling Plum Nutty Jam?
Where’s the fence he and his kids
nailed before they grew
into two-storied houses
they own now? Behind doors, where
are the Beppus, Tanagis? And Marian,
the widow, drawing her shades?
He hates diamond-shaped wire
cutting everything he sees.
What felled trees, memories
of the wife ladling Plum Nutty Jam?
Where’s the fence he and his kids
nailed before they grew
into two-storied houses
they own now? Behind doors, where
are the Beppus, Tanagis? And Marian,
the widow, drawing her shades?