Nanami the Kitten: [nuzzling Nobu the cat's belly] Got milk? Nobu the Cat: Dude! WTF?! Nanami the Kitten: [persistently] Got milk??? Nobu the Cat: [resignedly flopping on his side ] Whatever. * * * Heartichoke to Nanami the Kitten: Hey, where did all your whiskers go? Why don’t you have any whiskers? Nobu! Did you [...]
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MILK / WHISKERS
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LIKE DIGGING STONES OUT OF THE GROUND
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In the sixth night of Natsume Soseki’s Ten Nights’ Dreams, Unkei the Sculptor is carving a Nio, a temple guardian, in front of spectators. Unkei’s sculpting technique is diffident, offhand, unconcerned, yet exquisitely confident. The dreamer wonders how Unkei does this, and is told that Unkei merely digs out the Nio that’s been buried all [...]
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Lee Ann Roripaugh (a.k.a. "heartichoke") is the author of three volumes of poetry: Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), and On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009).Pages
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