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Exile in Japan

by Kenneth Rexroth
Issue #7
Spring 1975
On the balcony of the tower I play my flute and watch The Spring rain. I wonder If I ever Will go home and see The tide bore In Chekiang River again. Straw sandals, an old Begging bowl, nobody Knows...

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