memories
as fragile
as cicada husks...
by Kineo Hayashida
Kineo Fukuda (1927–2005) was a Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi Prefecture. He began publishing poetry in 1947 and studied under Dakotsu Iida. In 1971, he published his first poetry collection, Warabi (“Straw Fire”). He also contributed to the haiku journal Shiratsuyu throughout the 1990s.
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