From the Japanese,
meaning “tree-light,”
the interplay between
leaves and sunshine,
scattered, filtered.
In English, we might
say dappled or diffused,
but the word also means
a melancholic longing
for a person, place,
or thing far away, not
seen but remembered,
a nostalgia, a flickering
sense of once having
known the feel of a rouge
sunbeam breaking through
multiple moving branches
in order to illuminate
a face almost forgotten.

~LJ