Bear, diamonds and crane -- I. The gift of inheritance -- 1969 -- Haiku: Southern California -- Tales from the Japanese -- The weight of names -- Near Owens Valley, 1985 -- Villanelle: November night -- Insouciance -- End of adolescence -- II. Inglewood: past Florence and Normandie, 1990 -- After adrenaline -- October moon, 1981 -- Ko-Uta is Little Song -- Bedtime stories in 5-7-5 syllables -- Diamonds and crane -- Forgotten names -- Not Ikebana, but Wabi Sabi -- Cousins -- Anthropometry, 1987 -- III. In America -- Absolution -- Collage/Bricolage: or fragments of truth -- IV. June, 1974 -- For the grandfather who called himself Jon Doe -- Silver-dollar trees -- Vincent and Emma -- Shuumatsu: American born Japanese -- Trailing fragments: Things to keep inside a bento box -- Sunday afternoon -- Sawtelle Boulevard -- V. At seven and nine, my niece and nephew know -- Tale of hair for my mother -- The order of mothers: what friends and relatives said -- What the women do -- 12 lines, -- dash --, couplet -- The untold afterlife of Izumi Shikibu, Heian Court poet -- Before we were ready -- Tale of the black diamond -- My seedling, my yonsei.
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