Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: acorns dive bombing our cars– ping! I was e-mailing my sister in Boston. It’s hot here, cooler there. I said: “say hi to your acorns” as she lives among oaks. She wrote me back the words that became the first two lines here. I capped…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: this darkness full of rain that clatters in the chimney and washes over roof tiles seeping through cracks and pooling on the floor is the summer’s end   the end of dusty death of grass and the bees wandering hungry migrations started the sky emptying of feathers filling with…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: Neolithic cairn rain, rain dripping again

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ことあらば本家に集ひ花煙草　　　吉川智子 koto araba honke ni tsudoi hana-tabako             if something happens             we gather at the head family house…             tobacco flowers                                                 Tomoko Yoshikawa from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  ‘hana-tabako’ (flowering tobacco) is an autumn kigo.

Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: I spoke in 2016  about how five-element acupuncturists diagnose various constitutions. It’s always fun to guess what “causative factor” a famous personality might be although without a clinical visit, it’s always a guess. But in the case of Joe Biden, I would venture to say he’s FIRE. Why? He…

Originally posted on Mindfills: chorus from the wings katy-did-she-didn’t-she-did green big bug singing * kirigirisu serenading camouflaged it just ain’t cricket * broadcast from bushes nature’s night club naughtiness now everyone knows *** Mindfills by s.s. for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge – katydid (kirigirisu)….Thank you for the challenge. Read up on the little loud thing…