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WRITERS & LOVERS CAFE: <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2014</strong> 50<br />
bear his child. Her desire to be the mother is everywhere. So eventually, she<br />
conjures up herself as a fetus:<br />
i want to sleep<br />
in the field of wild poppies<br />
let their<br />
red flesh envelop me<br />
& my broken heart<br />
So ultimately a realization strikes that the Solitary Woman is not solitary. She<br />
has been committed – engaged, betrothed, faithful – to the Tanka Lover ... It<br />
also gets clear that Pamela A. Babusci gave birth to the most beautiful child<br />
she could have ever conceived -- herself.<br />
her porcelain skin<br />
newly washed like<br />
a fresh water pearl<br />
she awaits her lover's footprints<br />
across the dewy path<br />
***<br />
Paper Plane, by Ikumi Yoshimura. (Rainbow Press, Gifu, Japan 2012). 86 unnumbered<br />
pages, 4” X 8”, Japanese stringbound. ISBN 978-4-947716-03-7.<br />
$10/1000 Yen from: Rainbow Press, Oonawaba 4-13, Gifu 500-8889, Japan<br />
or < ikuyo.yoshimura@nifty.com ><br />
Reviewed by Tad Wojnicki<br />
There is something in Paper Plane by Ikumi Yoshimura that makes it pretty<br />
intimate. The haiku chapbook is almost as intimate as a shy high-schooler's<br />
diary. The speaker's voice is modest, focused on small things, almost dainty:<br />
eating an apple<br />
like a girl –<br />
the day moon<br />
pick wild strawberries<br />
wondering about<br />
some excuses
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