 |
|||||
| TABLE OF CONTENTS
XVIII: 3 October, 2002 |
LYNX |
||||
 | |||||
 |
|||||
SYMBIOTIC TWICKENHAM HOMESTEAD THE DAY'S SHAPE THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN PROBABLY:
Three 'real' renga sorta WEIGHTED AIR DID DUBYA SAY WHITE FLOWERS UNI - SHUFFLINGS |
APPROACHING SPRING the measured advance Young strawberry plants soap bubbles - a circus tiger autumn dream matching cutoffs and rainy day - leftover pie father of lies cherry tree earthmover stuck tires screeching ice fishing - bonfire flames new romance the moon so close friends preparing sushi new possibilities with back country road as if to touch the sky Written on February 16, 2002 at Monterey Dunes, California
TWICKENHAM HOMESTEAD ceramic vase's riderless horses slightly tarnished - the waitress's silver tray selecting radishes from the salad with my fingers red hot pokers looking decidedly green on the bread roll's crust a hint of lipstick girl's matching pink clothes, hair tie & backpack sun shining on the "nursery this way" sign arranged on the wall a row of walking sticks "beverage selection" still displayed on our table on the backs of chairs - winter jackets tinkle of dropped cutlery from the kitchen too busy eating, we've no time to talk politics drawing out their lunch empty plates - only the lettuce remains
THE DAY'S SHAPE sunshine at last
the day's shape white-faced heron
evening walk
THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN a worn mountain trail through falling snow serpentine spirals leaves drifting down chance meeting at dusk letters exchanged over the sea back to school shadows of shaven heads lovers’ itch hands become bees, deer, sacred incense curls still sitting on the zafu in the heat ripe raspberries a scratching sound the desert story teller's endangered the dark crumbly earth of spring turning the soil the snail disappears luminous clay vessel grandmother's heritage silver a white candle an evergreen lends itself gleam from the kama how I loved him finding my shadow power and freedom across the moon’s face loud on the radio the hollow a rabbit stops and stares the picnic place glistening grasshopper not yet blooming for the sole sake of the dance February 27 to March 16, 2002
PROBABLY: Three 'real' renga sorta first snow therefore 1/7-12/02 first snow therefore first snow in therefore at home as usual art opening at one table Leon & Teiko, Taeko, tacha* haiku book in english but i can't bear to find the right moment he brags: fastest in the world at 1.5 gigahertz a shrub's life 'not over my dead body will they raise your taxes' obituary: A Celebration! Please bring a memory.
'My mom toled me a kupal days latter so I new just to tell you.' mailbox farther down the blacktop below freezing dressed for Siberia to find IRS 1040 Forms and Instructions a nondrip-dry blanket hangs out as the roof drips dry sunglasses block the bright glare reflecting off wet pavement basho nor i base all form on a crow in autumn dusk abstract painting my search for a dreamy image to use as title computer icons shy of those which mean hard work 'Oh! you take the high road and I'll take the low road...' contented hockey dad's son testifies to save his and his hides women today's heroes sign onto www.angelarmsworks.com the three faces of eve** one's named jane
ice-melt will a 2000-year-old church truly root out its pedophiles 'out of the closet' with Alzheimer's those far-off dirt patches i think of you and thank you my pretties latest non-digital photos flying your way homemade soup well homemade in that i cut up the vegetables all of us with food issues candy under the couch run dick run or go deeper into that bunker investigations begin biorhythms I'd rather research the rhythm system what's with the weather have humans destroyed the seasons paranoia close to Seattle flesh-eating bacteria almost a thousand bucks on the beagle the vet can't go figure
'a case of rage' 234 stab wounds sanctuary converted to live-in studios hot-hued window sashes buddhas put up and taken down by extremists breaking news in the mood to indulge my VCR addiction now repressed creativity repressed creatively a gift of encouragement HSA Merit Book Award First Place*** to be understood midwinter *Devoted couple Leon Applebaum and artist wife, Teiko
Shimizaki, one never seen without the other. They often escort Taeko, a writer
friend, to art functions. Tacha (Yiddish) means emphatically this is
so. ***to find the words, Haiku Society of America Northwest Region Members' Anthology 2000; art by Francine Porad
storm headed this way 1/22-26/02 quick trip for blood draw and med pickup storm headed this way pell-mell computer break leaves raked from nature icons down to bare concrete on the entryway Big Bad Wolf doing his darnedest* in the bowels of enron all this time dick with a shredder WARNING: I HAVE AN ATTITUDE I KNOW HOW TO USE bumper sticker ego written on the losing player's racket
the fire dies out a chill returns in the afternoon quarreling of crows lawsuit settled U.S. military women minus abayah** superiority and righteousness ingrained in the mouths of countries a to z beginning reader self-congratulations to make up for too many love & miss you poems i've turned to sarcasm hardly trivial trivia: Laotians don't press lips out of reach to the media the 'x-ray' camp of whatever they're called better off than hundreds of thousands dying of hunger a creature of the night up the wall to leftover bird seed on the ledge wide-eyed stray cat thirty-mile winds a battery that won't go belongs to a woman who doesn't wanna go Hawaii photo viewed with longing the Texan's grin
entry arrives a western theme painting for an abstract exhibit bath color-combo only matisse could inspire full tub of hot water he claims he's turned into a block of ice not more snow and more snow more rain and more rain three teatjerkers in a row oh dear! tearjerkers three tearjerkers just a hard-hitting haiku with a romantic sunset Valentine's Day wedding planner books a tropical island rendezvous condit on the campaign trail did he become innocent Murder She Wrote little does he know he has four minutes to live heaved from the earth the impatience of green and me truly annoying/enraging posts on World News Speak Out board freedom of speech in a dry spell maybe on mondays
toward the full moon when even more clashes rise up in arms turmoil abroad my sunshine Jay at the door juice from a grapefruit edge off a bunch of refuse-to-work things unrestrained abandon frenzied dance to jazz accompanied by the splatter of mud to the little valley i crave God and Mother Nature hand in glove *Spellcheck suggests 'damnedest' ** traditional long robe worn in Saudi Arabia similar to Afghan burqa
conversation 1/27-2/1/2002 telephone wires loaded with first snow and conversation sixty-one new scans for the website idle hands seated in front of the monitor what happened to yesterday a moan and a couple of groans as i miss the sun pan group tightwad circles on his but we love him just the same [sic] two-inch daffodil sprouts not likely to tame this shrew
steam rises from the pond footprints scuffled around the edge mottled mounds of ice like some outer-space landscape bordered by little hills that only go up i forget to be on high alert somewhere in Afghanistan? Marci's pilot friend loyalty to one's right-or-wrong country the only brainwashing allowed I ignore politics today a passion for trees winter off track what will these early buds get for their effort living room-dining room-kitchen-and-hall walk around a quiet evening a few red walls in a red house somehow fitting new paintings in a row for my appraisal piles of leaves hand-raked from the primrose patches by the path a light dusting of flakes on dampened flagstone
tempting groceries from a big shopping spree dinner at 4:00 p.m. it's the economy dubya the duty of citizenship patriotism is not a four-letter word roots 25th-anniversary rerun of the struggle to survive* to know oneself list 10 defining moments 7 choices made 5 people** next time i could tell him oh go fly a kigo should I start a haiku with 'dead of winter' or 'borne on the breeze' intrigue on the airwaves the eroticism of sabers discussion of lovemaking for one...lovemaking for two and three just across the road their brush fire out of control tantrum a little kid kicks her mom's hand off the steering wheel a long day unable to think aloud or 'unaloud'
from habit just one meal a trout rises to the weather of an insect photos of stream steelhead in Fishing News eyes of the oxeye daisies in the jumble spring's to sort through neighbor's gift plant clumps surround our yard a cold snap in february but nothing planned re groundhog shadows Valentine's Day along with love Maui sunshine *based on the book by Alex Haley **Dr. Phil McGraw, Self Matters: Creating Your Life From Inside Out
WEIGHTED AIR country air weighted with summer and angst a year since 9/11 suspended from school with her 'war sucks' t-shirt recycling books a friend covets The Complete Works of Shakespeare old ideas remain in the old-fashioned daylily plump tomatoes part green part red what can I say that a bee hasn't in a patch of soil only mother nature and i could love
wouldn't do 'til the world learned the found teenagers were raped reality and fantasy on TV double-sided coin past midnight the computer wants another game of dominoes don't call him 007 we meet Jim Bond hyped charges dropped he was overtaken by god not terrorism prayer day world peace an impossible dream new yellow bulb for the porch still moths flutter in their patterns birds twitter over the dauntless Blue Angels maneuver reflected at the pond's edge something within the milkweed family speaking of family the whole bunch on hand to party too hot to talk too hot to listen most of the week goes by alone hometown...remembered houses smaller
a noisy tractor clears the hillside leaving two trees centered 'fight fire with fire' gone up in western flames removed from Seattle airport foreigner with razors in his shoes cut-back stems another inch toward winter August trip to Oregon with a bachelor alongside Mount Bachelor raw garlic and cucumbers how 'bout a big smooch we like the GP's advice: ignore fluctuating blood data still in a bucket rescued irises kindergarten eye chart Brian sings out 'heart...star...flag' a somewhat bright thought falls on no one around 'new blue jeans with spredid pink dert thats how thay come' fingerprint the world just in case
identified flying object does she carry that spooky west nile virus a spider climbs our grapevine or is it Jack's beanstalk whatever the mainstream i'm up a creek with touch-me-nots his brand of shorthand: tanx 4 all yr efforts fra haiku chat group someone still clings to the work ethic of 5-7-5 prelude to serenity looking up then inward notes: Started: August 1, 2002 Ended: Aug 14, 2002
DID DUBYA SAY did dubya say bin could run but not hide or hide but not run Afghans advised to sleep with one eye open an ear to the sweet ground as nuke talk flies through the air snowflakes just starting to fall mushy haiku for the old editor who'd probably say not quite 'will consider new material with a fresh eye'
'on the offensive' can be offensive depends on one's point of view taped to the door of the 'run-in' photos of dead deer from different countries but looking the same anguished women full of themselves two men shake hands mission of envoy Zinni...for artists the journey is the destination down the slick road backwards until tomorrow maybe St. Patrick's Day at the theater Irish dancers' precision tapping what's left of the sun on what's left of colored shirts mail pickup service down to one a day my car alone on the street i've nothing new to say but slower at it on my mind Palestinian children filled with the disease of hate spooky how gods showed up
true to form after the yellow crocuses a bunch of purples so many hues and shades in the box of pastels the tone of his speech borders on stupidity no doubt re the rest try reading AOL International News Message Boards back to capitalized nature if the rain weren't so capitalized bare branches cast long shadows too early thoughts of hot pepper seeds in a napkin somewhere at least one cockle of my heart warmed feuding brothers more to feud about as one wants to build a bridge Jeff and Jay like as well as love each other my least favorite errand to leave the land for any reason paradox of wanderlust and wanting to stay home
just learned 'I' own Bush, the U. S. government, media and movies don't want a pardon but how 'bout a loan yours for the asking I like to help people realize their dreams 'operation candyman' a pack of pedophiles busted torn into smaller and smaller pieces the concept of one world neat and clean again before reptiles and females Started: 3/14/02 Ended: 3/19/02
WHITE FLOWERS the plum tree a pregnant woman's dress the moon preparing herbal tea murmuring accomplice clear summer morning cardinal's song over black undies
UNI - SHUFFLINGS I Night Thing Junta jaunt
live EVIL P o s t a g e G e s t a p o parent flesh wrong printer reprint
bowel obverse g l o s s
Nest Nets thicken kitchen peels s l e e p
sphere Step pets Pest o r d e r l e s s s o l d e r e r s
keen seldommodels
OPUS SOUP mope poem WHORES SHOWER SPICE EPICS
ginger
kind NEOTERIC ERECTION
purest remote METEOR
IV CHANT NATCH hoes snober bors ropes LION Loin Net
Ten
V Bugle Bulge law awl Alpines Spaniel Own now won carp - crap pot
North Break Brake Baker
VI LAST SALT SLAT fighter freight MINUTE MINUET eat ate tea plane panel
VII ScitITCH same seam mesa NOISIER SENIOR
Dawn Wand
| ||||
| |||||
|
|||||
| Submission Procedures
Deadline for the next issue is |
|
Poems and comments Copyright © Designated Authors
2002. Page Copyright© Jane Reichhold 2002. I would like to know more about Renga. |
|||
|
|||||