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27 Degrees

  27 Degrees By Malachi Doyle   27 Degrees -- Sunny – Stormy – Repeat – December --   Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2022.   Most pages are single-sided Some are double & some are backwards With a space On the front side & words on the back (strange).   Haiku :   Issa^ by Hass No word of STC* Mindfulness sometimes jars   (^ Kobayashi Issa – legendary Japanese Zen haiku poet who celebrated insects “Beasties” to borrow from Robbie Burns Hass translated and edited my Issa haiku selections. In the introduction he named Wordsworth the sole author of the book Lyrical Ballads, omitting the name of the other author, my preferred, Coleridge) (* poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) --   Drinking in Issa’s name – ‘Cup of Tea’ By the cupful   --   Even translated – Issa’s humour Smiles me to tears   --     (charcoal trouble portrait) Cup of tea Issa loves Gillian Welsh   --   Year’