sun

sun on the pond

the spread of a drake's wings

after mating

First published in Ambrosia.

Witnessed in Hyde Park, London, England. I thought the drake's bragging was extremely un-English. Okay, he got lucky, but still . . .

flicker

moon shadows

the flicker

of a smile

Posted at the Haiku Bandit's blog.

memory

autumn memory

of those walks with my father–

so many silences

Second place, Caribbean Kigo Kukai, June 2010

pater

pater noster

intoned by the priest . . .

Jesus called Him Dad

Posted at Gillena's blog as a comment. "Pater Noster" is Latin for "Our Father," the first words of the Lord's Prayer. Jesus used the Aramaic "abba," which is best translated as "dad," "daddy," etc., rather than the more formal "father."

Happy Father's Day to all dads, granddads, stepdads, and all other kinds of dads out there.

slick 6

slick slicker slickest

an apology

for the apology*

the CEO

at the yacht races

first day off in weeks**

*Rep. Barton (R-Texas), under pressure from party leaders, apologized for referring to the settlement worked out by President Obama as a "shakedown" and retracted the apology he had offered to British Petroleum. Ironically, a group consisting of 114 Republican members of Congress had denounced the settlement just one day before, also calling it a "shakedown." They have neither apologized nor retracted.

**Well, he said he would like his life back. It's other people's lives he doesn't care about. (See earlier "slick" posts.)

"Female Viagra," Part 2

Remember flibanserin? (See earlier "female viagra" post)

"On Sexual Desire Drug for Women, F. D. A. Panel Says More Study Is Needed," NY Times, 19 June 2010

rephrasing the question:

what do women want

to want?

small

small town

the waitress asks me

where I'm headed

First published in Modern Haiku

bounce

the way

the ball bounces

U! S! A!

I posted this at Gillena's blog a few minutes ago.

butterfly

butterfly

how long will you

remember me

First published in Acorn

skinny

skinny dipping–

her cute names

for everything

First published in Modern Haiku

cool

cool breeze

moonlight

rippling my way

Shiki kukai, May 2010. Assigned topic: "Peace"

apology, sort of

Regular visitors to this blog will recognize that the outburst of topical comments in the last five posts is uncharacteristic. But sometimes . . .

government (slick 5 )

government

of the people

by the people

for the people

what's the problem?*

*"Government is the problem." (President Ronald Reagan and countless others since. Lines 2-4 are a direct quotation from the Gettysburg Address of President Abraham Lincoln, who thought it was worth fighting a war to assure that this government should not perish from the earth.)

slick 4

British Petroleum

what part of Kentucky

are they from?*

The Republican candidate for the US Senate from Kentucky has characterized presidential criticism of British Petroleum as "un-American."

slick 3

See "slick" and "slick 2" below

the corporation

is a person–*

what's the CEO?

*Corporate personhood is an ancient legal fiction given a peculiar twist in American law, following a headnote to the Supreme Court's decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. This headnote (not, in fact, the Supreme Court decision itself) was established as precedent in Pembina Consolidated Mining and Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania.

This precedent figured in a recent Supreme Court decision–overthrowing restrictions on campaign spending by corporations–which combines the fiction of corporate personhood with the fiction that money is speech.

It has been pointed out that, if the corporation were indeed a person, it would be a psychopath.

slick 2

dead workers

the CEO wants

his life back

BP CEO Tony Hayward: ‘I’d Like My Life Back’
(Think Progress) - The millionaire CEO of foreign oil giant BP, Tony Hayward, is upset at the inconvenience caused to him by his company’s devastation of the Gulf of Mexico. BP’s offshore drilling explosion claimed 11 lives on April 20, and has since spewed 20 to 100 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. At least 491 birds, 227 turtles and 27 mammals, including dolphins, have been found dead. On Sunday, immediately after apologizing, Hayward then complained about the effect of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on his personal life, saying “I would like my life back.“

slick

I posted this as a comment at Juliet's blog. You'll recognize the news story that inspired it.

slick

pumping up

the PR

fishing

fishing alone

I cast a thought

on the stream

Second place, Shiki Kukai May 2010. Kigo: "fishing."