04 May 2026

Broken Shoji

Leaf 379 – Reflections

 

Toshi Yoshida - From the Ryogoku Bridge


When what was essentially fleeting gets fixed …

 

 

Time stilled –

broken shoji patched

with newsprint.

 

 

 

 Tetsuro Yoshida - Das Japanische Wohnhaus (1935)


This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky in response to a #haikufeels writing prompt: 'repair.'