Originally posted on method two madness: the wheel turns–we follow our tidesbalancing between wavesebbing and flowingtogether Instead of a grid or circle collage this month, I decided to use this embroidery that I just finished. I signed up for a series of video embroidery instruction courses–every two weeks there’s a new one, with new ideas…

Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: from on highsoft coos of a dovegracing morning Pat8/021

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: August beginsand I rememberpoems rarely at your grave —geranium blooms freelyon your workshop stool autumn leavesthe caregiver finds timeto?rest Photo by Arun on Pexels.com “rarely at your grave” has been published over the years: Modern Haiku, Fall 1996 Ellen Olinger – Three Questions?Series, 2010Edited by Curtis Dunlap Charlotte…

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: do the bidding of old gods summer crows

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): なほ北に行く汽車とまり夏の月　　中村汀女 nao kita ni yuku kisha tomari natsu no tsuki ??????????? the train stops ??????????? before going further North ??????????? summer moon ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Teijo Nakamura from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Teijo Nakamura (1900-1988)

#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/1/21): Sue Dawes latest #haibun (featuring a previousl published haiku by Tim Gardiner) appears in Contemporary Haibun Online! Buried in Meaning I take her hand: paper-thin skin, mushrooming with liver-spots.  The last few years have brought drought to her words, her movements wooden, constricted by hoists and straps.  My name is as hard to…