Haiku Reflections


all the stars aligned
on all fools day everyone
a bodhisattva

The turn of thought in this haiku is slightly opaque at first reading, but only because it poses a question which the reader must consider in order to arrive at the point of the poem: How (or why) is everyone a bodhisattva on April Fool’s Day? I have been blessed in my lifetime to know more than one “holy fool.”
—Clark Strand
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