Issa: with high spirits
with high spirits
the kite ascends…
green rice field
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
with high spirits
the kite ascends…
green rice field
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
“Found poetry” + books on a shelf = four more book spine poems at Bill Waters ~~ NOT Haiku. I hope you’ll take a look! :- )
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Published in Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems (https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/61/), 1/22/16.
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cow pose —
the way my back
cracks
my
twanging abs!
boat pose
child pose . . .
becoming a small
ball
dead
to the world . . .
corpse pose
What’s a book spine poem? A poem composed of…well, book spines! ;- )
Please check out “Time Capsule” at Bill Waters ~~ NOT Haiku.
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sleet falling
into steam rising…
rice cake tub
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
puff of exhaust
hangs
in the empty intersection
Published in Seven by Twenty, 7/24/11.
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