Five Poems
by Yorifumi Yaguchi
Yaguchi has also contributed five of his peace-oriented poems for this issue. Published earlier in Japan, they appear here with permission of the author.
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Ann Hostetler
I admire the spare way in which you have linked geography, the flow of time, myth, and current events in these poems. You shock us into recognition by contrasting images of divinity--God acting through Mother Theresa as opposed to the Nationalist canonization of former rulers in Japan--causing readers to question what and how they worship, and how this worship shapes our lives as instruments of war or peace.