Round Renga Round - online book reprint


This is a reprint of the book published in 1990 by AHA Books ISBN: 0-944676-20-0 Library of Congress Number: 90-85708 AHA Books POB 767 Gualala, CA 95445		Round Renga Round Edited by Jane Reichhold



		DEEPER INTO THE DREAM Francine Porad *Brent Partridge* first wake-up beeps snuggling deeper into the dream before i hear the thunder it shakes me tremor along his jaw crossword puzzled top of duck rock and the coyotes have noticed under a half moon electric generators harnessing the wind i see through a raven feather shadow autumn sunset a flight of crows dances down over treetops the chiaroscuro of adobe church towers blue cliff, ice river – a solitary keeps the sky company hoarfrost underfoot he posts CLOSED FOR THE SEASON i run out and hesitate listen to the silence the awesome quiet before the earth quakes steam and a tripod the sibyl's gone forecast of a halo around a black disk moon fallen leaves separated by a film of water what rain! leisurely reading the Shambhala catalogue on a late geranium Prometheus moth quivers and bows life-span so short sunshine this winter day three generations at lunch her wheelchair hidden from view i peer out – dappled dawn's colder between the clouds feisty starlings squawking over the last apples Venus in her crescent phase nearly eclipsed by angles rectangles and squares Mondrian orders his world winter color of candle flame – and its afterimage his poems on the ivory page sumi bird rises during the pauses in chanting a finch keeps cutting loose Gregorian melodies on yellowed vellum the large painted notes epiphany – a bell's boom blossoms from the valley above all the moon's corona spreading dewdrop on a nasturtium leaf our hearts inform reflection – – a spring night at the seashore clicking frame after frame of the fireball's descent twisted downward by sun – essence released – pine branch adding to the forest floor – a basket full of cones early iris acres of them on a hill over the ocean distinct bands of space progressively paler September 1989 January 1990 Mercer Island, Washington Occidental, California Previously published in the Haiku Canada Newsletter, V:3, 1990
	TABLE OF CONTENTS How This Book Began FIFTEEN KASEN RENGA Night Wind Suezan Aikins Brent Partridge The Sun's Glitter Francine Porad Suezan Aikins Lightning Flash Suezan Aikins Jane Reichhold Expanding Color Werner. Reichhold Suezan Aikins Deeper into the Dream Francine Porad Brent Partridge In Hand Brent Partridge Jane Reichhold Bridge and Mist Brent Partridge Werner Reichhold Sky Country Jane Reichhold Francine Porad Floating Meadow Werner Reichhold Francine Porad Both Sides Open Jane Reichhold Werner Reichhold White Butterfly Suezan Aikins Charles B. Dickson Touch of a Hand Ruby Spriggs Francine Porad Walking and Writing Brent Partridge Toward the First of Summer Lequita Vance Jane Reichhold Paul O. Williams Spinning Meditation Kenichi Sato Werner Reichhold Who Wrote These Renga? Links within the renga are Copyright © Designated Authors.



		Round Renga Round Copyright © 1990 by AHA Books. All rights reserved. Reprinted as an online book October, 2012 Copyright © Jane Reichhold