Applause for a Cloud

SayumiKamakura’s Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with acosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales. Sayumi Kamakura juxtaposes a surreal dailiness with acosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales. Theparadoxical frictions in her work resolve into moments of lucidity just asoften as they perplex. Although she writes in the haiku tradition, her poemsdetour from the conventional parameters for haiku, such as syllabicre