The Maynard

spring 2016

Yohako No Bi Miki Fukuda

A conversation with a massage therapist Francine Cunningham

Chou Chou Adele Barclay

I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Christopher Evans

Ottawa Hospital: Eating Disorder Ward Fan Palms Mallory Tater

Dark Chocolate Nettie Farris

The Best Thing Karl Miller

There's So Much to Tell You On Some Good Days Alison Braid

air mattress the clinic printed off a calendar B.J. Best

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Miki Fukuda

“Yohaku No Bi” or “Beauty of Remaining White Space”

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for Yukihisa

Alone

between withering autumn
and muddy spring

in the company of my own
barrenness now

and again, I return to the fallow
my brother left

white for me,

first to its heart,
where a few, diminutive

earthworms in Kanji
wiggle to his chuckling—such

handwriting a sign of a lesser
character, they say in Japan—on the final

page of the yellowing letter to Canada
he wrote twenty-four years ago,

then further east to our

clover-strewn fallow,
flooded for the rice to grow, where

a boy flies

through mud, water,
up and down after a frog,

and his leaping heart—

as if he had known what I would
as if he had known what I would and must.

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