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



		EXPANDING COLOR Werner Reichhold Suezan Aikins expanding from a circle color gong song into her womb a bell's voice sound of a holy house reverberating incense spirals above the goddess braided Indian hair silver from top to bottom moonrise seaweed shadows undulating rustling branches – snowflake drifts between fat red rosehips sipping herb tea honey on the rim frostbit sage potent in his palm lifelines fork into three branches uphold a nest sunset flurries – the starling's busy tracks slowly redden wind picking up wings from a dune trombone subsiding saltwater ice ripples into darkness moonlit skirt of spangles a belly dancer hot sea day halo of water spins from the dog arching between him and her a boomerang out of the blue a magnolia petal cavorting sound of long hair first time rinsed a soap bubble eye of an octopus its rolling shine coolness of your skin under my lips city boy lighting the new wood stove with wet kindling newspaper lovers consumed by the flame caved light car curves a dripping crack mountain tunnel the newborn's infinite blue gaze mother witch showing her daughter the Milky Way head to wind – three loons under Orion belt-buckle's triangle black shield with a white stripes plumage for both young cattail's spear limpid spring water half-filled a rising bowl moon golden radiance between two pears splashing water wedding band appears from under garden earth tree ring dating fingerprint record into a maze torrential rain pierced by a night peeper's lonely whistle dashes and dots falling in place with the word freshening breeze – black ants swarm up trembling lily pollen blown westward cloud of sunset September 21, 1989 July 10, 1990 Gualala, California, USA Prospect, Nova Scotia, Canada
	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