In this poem I contrast the natural Ukiyo I perceived while observing the ash flakes descending during a forest fire, with the more traditional Ukiyo/floating world of Japan’s Edo Period. Also, coincidentally Ukiyo or "floating world" in Japanese acts as a homophone to sorrowful world, which is what it simultaneously felt like when I was beset by ash flakes. Those ash flakes at first disoriented me, because for a split second I thought I was seeing and experiencing snow, in the middle of a forest fire.
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