Sunday, May 25, 2008

IV: 022 Memorial Day 2008


- - see f/k/a for more Memorial Day haiku and senryu --

Monday, May 19, 2008

IV: 021

the old man's bladder
interrupts
a young man's dream

too much tongue
the taste
of the popsicle stick

Thursday, May 15, 2008

IV: 020

mid-May
sweating over our last
baked apple

Saturday, May 10, 2008

IV: 019

-- two years ago, I wrote and posted this haiku:
lilacs
next to trashcans --
the scent of each

-- today, the seasons repeated, and I took a photo
of the scene that inspired the poem:



update (May 19, 2008): Urged by my brother Arthur, the real photographer in the family, I came up with a less graphic/grating view of the trashcans, for the squeamish.