Haikus: This Other World
A collection of 810 haikus written by Richard Wright, author of "Native Son," during the last few years of his life. At the time he was sick and living as an expatriate in Paris. He choose the 810 out of 4000 that he had written.


As my delegate 
The spring wind has its fingers
In a young girl's hair. 

For seven seconds 
The steam from the train whistle
Blew out the spring moon.

Venturing outdoors, 
The Children walk intimidly, 
Respecting the snow.

A soft wind at dawn 
Lifts one dry leaf and lays it 
upon another.

The Autumn evening 
Is full of an empty sky 
And one empty road. 


Even my old friends 
seem like newly met strangers 
to this first snowfall.

That frozen star there,
Or this one on the water,-
Which is more distant?



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