To My Cat
My life seems fleeting,
then you enter it and leave --
now I live too long
(02 November 2020
for Ilhem Issaoui,
on her cat's death)
Mark Hein, a poet and painter, began making art on a fog-swept hill in San Francisco. After traveling the world, raising a family, and working as a teacher, journalist, and psychotherapist, he makes art in a wooded canyon in Los Angeles.
"I first read and wrote haiku as a teen...
They've remained a favorite form, with
Matsuo Basho as my master...
(from whose example
I depart woefully and often)..."
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