haiku-usa: suddenly silver

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

My thanks to Fred of urban-ku for his help with this one. You can sample Fred's work at mmariani.homestead.com.

suddenly silver

as they turn in their flight

city pigeons

floots said...: Loved this one!; 4:22 AM
floots said...: Greetings from one "retired academic" to another. Just got in and read your kind words. Thank you. Strange, I was thinking about you yesterday as I found myself echoing your sentiments when: "Three months after my fifty seventh birthday I wrote my first Tanka." Have to keep finding these self-imposed hurdles. I taught English for over twenty years (My voice gave out.) but I've written a lot more since I stopped. Regards.; 6:24 AM
Bill said...: Some call it retirement; I call it liberation. Until December I never wrote anything but academic prose. Your comments mean a lot to me, as you know I have a high regard for your work.; 1:48 PM
Anonymous Poet said...: Nice. Very succinct.; 5:44 PM
Anonymous Poet said...: By the way, what did you teach (as an academic) . . . unless the answer is somewhere else on this site.; 5:45 PM
Bill said...: Anonymous Poet: I taught American Literature, African-American Literature, Literary Criticism, Crime and Detective Criticism, and two introductory film courses, in addition to the usual introductory lit and composition courses. I'm still teaching the film courses, but I'm winding it up at the end of the current semester. Thanks for asking.; 8:00 PM
Bill said...: Correction:That should read crime and detective fiction; 6:12 AM

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