#Haiku Happenings #5: Charlotte Digregorio’s Daily Haiku features a #senryu and a #poem by Marsh Muirhead!
Often, the haiku we write inspires a longer poem or vice-versa.
Longtime haikuist Marsh Muirhead experienced just that below, and both his poems are enjoyable.
senryu
I can’t see you now she says meaning ever
by Marsh Muirhead (USA)
Modern Haiku, 40.2, 2009
Muirhead’s poem below, inspired by the above, was recently published in DePaul University’s Poetry East, Autumn 2017:
Gardening
I have become a gardener,
have come to understand
the difference between an annual
and a perennial, the difference
between a one-time thing
and the “I’ll be back
and I’m here to stay
if you take care of me,”
kind of thing,
what she meant when I called
and she said,
“I can’t see you now,”
meaning ever.
Frank J. Tassone 
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