Applause for a Cloud Arvind Narayanan and nobody is safe

and nobody is safe

and peanut butter chocolate chip

So why not dress to impress in comfort

Helena is sent to the High Reeve

● The Rithmatist

Applause for a Cloud Arvind Narayanan and nobody is safeSayumi Kamakura's Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales. Sayumi Kamakura juxtaposes a surreal dailiness with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales. The paradoxical frictions in her work resolve into moments of lucidity just as often as they perplex. Although she writes in the haiku tradition, her poems detour from the