{"id":4065,"date":"2004-08-07T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/08\/07\/its-just-a-game-grasshopper\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:33","slug":"its-just-a-game-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/08\/07\/its-just-a-game-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s just a game, grasshopper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A gray dawn —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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last night’s poker cards<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Cool breeze scented with mint —<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a grasshopper poised<\/EM><\/DIV>
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in the twilit stillness<\/EM><\/DIV>
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by <\/FONT>Rebecca Lilly<\/FONT><\/A>, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT> in English-<\/EM><\/FONT> <\/EM> <\/FONT>      <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Language Haiku<\/EM>  (Jim Kacian, Dee Evetts, eds., Red Moon Press, 2001)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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credits: “a gray dawn” from Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXXII: 1; “cool breeze” from Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXXI:1<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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