haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

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Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

First Confession

First Confession
a nun hurries children
past the garden

Monday, August 28, 2006

return

slowly they return
through morning mist . . .
yesterday's hills

Friday, August 25, 2006

hummingbird

hummingbird
a pause in the quarrel
as we look

Sunday, August 20, 2006

gift

mohawk trail
gift shop
totems for sale

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

art works

1
Cezanne's Card Players—
the museum guards talk
about their break
2
video installation
the museum guard
checks his watch

Friday, August 11, 2006

so hot

so hot—
tattoo snaking
down her arm

Monday, August 07, 2006

heat wave

heat wave—
pigeon feather
on a fallen leaf

Friday, August 04, 2006

sides

bombed into rubble—
one side of a border
or the other

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