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Aparna Pathak
Aparna Pathak
2024年12月19日

This is what the poet says about the poem:


This was my first published haiku. I wrote it about my break-up with a former partner in Paris, whom I'd lived with for four years. It was in July, and in our apartment, the mornings were always cold, regardless of the season, but that day was particularly cold. She left that morning with her things and I never saw her again. The zipping of her suitcase seemed to last forever, and it was in that very moment that the reality of our separation set in. Now, whenever I think back to that time or her, I remember the sound of that suitcase. So in a way, that suitcase never really closed,…

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
2024年12月20日
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Most profound. We've all experienced such moments, but rarely were we able to write such a succinct haiku.

Well done, Timothy.

Good choice, Aparna.

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Mohua
Mohua
2024年12月18日

There is such a finality of ending/parting in the 'slow zipping' wonderful!

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sanjuktaa
2024年12月20日
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Very true, Mohua. The poet's story also endorses your reading.

Thank you.

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