Originally posted on K.: When I worked as a textile designer in the 70s and 80s I spent a lot of time matching Pantone color paper to customer colors and hand cutting and pasting stripe designs.  So when I saw a box set of 100 Pantone postcards nostalgia made me buy it.  I’ve done my…

#Haiku Happenings #8: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by LeRoy Gorman!

Originally posted on Ontheland: cabin fever walking the pet turtle during lockdown . . ©️2020 0ntheland Woman walking turtle in Rome fined during lockdown

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Isabel and I were sitting pretty. We were taking a studio class with Patricia Pearce, the innovative sculptor who I love and revere. Working Wednesdays in the class. Sneaking out a little early because we had worn ourselves out and needed to go to bed.…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 春昼やあかず見てをるひとの臍　　　鎌田　俊 shunchû ya akazu miteoru hito no heso             spring afternoon—             not tired of looking at             someone’s belly button                                                             Shun Kamada from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, May 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Originally posted on weird laburnum: different windowsthe movement of the sunaround confinement house arrestthe plague runnerenters our breath friendly catits owners becomethe front line street applausewe recognise our heroesare nurses under fire birthday cardsin their protective casingthe evening shudders blinkered suntwo metres translatedin wrong numbers nightzoningstreetlights pick outthe sputum Easter Quarantinethe daylight sparkles acrossyet another…