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Leaning
A haiku
leaning into
the north wind —
ginkgo branches
—
The wind presses steadily from one direction, and the branches answer without resistance. Their lean feels practised, shaped by seasons of the same insistence, neither strained nor dramatic. In that quiet adjustment, motion becomes a form of balance — meeting force not by standing firm, but by yielding just enough to remain whole.
First published on NaHaiWriMo.
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