Plum blossoms

A haiku

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plum blossoms… the thinness of the doorstep

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Spring often reveals how little separates one world from another. Standing at the threshold, with plum blossoms opening beyond it, the doorstep seems almost insubstantial — a narrow line between shelter and season, between what is familiar and what is quietly arriving.

First published on NaHaiWriMo.

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