{"id":3022,"date":"2016-12-03T06:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:03:34","slug":"spring-in-northern-japan-by-sonia-saikaley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/spring-in-northern-japan-by-sonia-saikaley\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in Northern Japan by Sonia Saikaley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring in Northern Japan<\/h2>\n

by Sonia Saikaley<\/p>\n

Futons now hang on metal bars
\noutside apartment windows in Shiogama.
\nPlastic clips grip the thick cotton, keep them
\nfrom falling on narrow streets.<\/p>\n

I wander through alleys
\nof paper lanterns and indigo curtains
\nof sushi restaurants where
\nclotheslines do not hang through streets,
\njust those metal bars.<\/p>\n

My washer gurgles and chokes
\non my underwear, socks, shirts.
\nBang, bang, bang,
\nit whimpers through soapsuds.
\nI press my hands on the machine,
\nmurmur apologetic words.<\/p>\n

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Sonia Saikaley\u2019s first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher<\/em>, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. Her first collection of poetry, Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter<\/em>, was published in 2012 and a second collection, A Samurai\u2019s Pink House, will be published in 2017 by Inanna Publications. She is currently working on a novel called Jasmine Season on Hamra Street, which was awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, she lives in her hometown of Ottawa, Canada. In the past, she worked as an English teacher in Japan. Visit her website at www.soniasaikaley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sonia Saikaley\u2019s first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. Her first collection of poetry, Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter, was published in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t