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seed holes
I say hello to the neighbor
I quarreled with
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a handful of stones 10/15/2011
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seeds
(seed starting)
April 14 (Four in One)
every seed he plants a finger inserted deep
into
soil
that’s what we call the dirt
we don’t believe
in
fact
that dragonfly is me
December 5: My true love said
if you unbuttoned me the shivering of the rain
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something white in the distance you promise me birches
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*
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only your word for it growing marigolds from seed
August 23: Three more of one
1.
spitting watermelon seeds the dark spits back
2.
the grasshopper rises so slowly — I think I must be dreaming
2.
the Buddha hides behind the fence where the chickens peck feed
June 17: 30 (Early Blossoms)
early blossoms
apple seeds still drying
in my coffee cup
June 9: 2-4: The Technique of the Sketch or Shiki’s Shasei
(See this post for an explanation of what’s going on here.)
Jane:
“Though this technique is often given Shiki’s term shasei (sketch from life) or shajitsu (reality) it had been in use since the beginning of poetry in the Orient. The poetic principle is ‘to depict as is.’ The reason he took it up as a ’cause’ and thus, made it famous, was his own rebellion against the many other techniques used in haiku. Shiki was, by nature it seemed, against whatever was the status quo. If poets had over-used any idea or method his personal goal was to point this out and suggest something else. … Thus, Shiki hated word-plays, puns, riddles – all the things you are learning here! He favored the quiet simplicity of just stating what he saw without anything else having to happen in the ku.
evening waves
come into the cove
one at a time”
– Jane Reichhold, Haiku Techniques
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Me:
wind in the maples
gray seeds spin
against gray sky
after the storm
fallen branch
dries to gray
Mississippi source
travelers
tiptoe across
May 21: 1 (Strange Insects)
the air full
of these strange insects
maple seeds spin down
Red Dragonfly 