Haiku on the radio
Last week, NPR and WBUR radio program On Point held an hourlong discussion of haiku. Guests included Frogpond editor George Swede and tinywords publisher d. f. tweney.
Month: January 2011
Winter Stars
My neighbor fills her winter garden with oaktag cut-outs of red and yellow stars—hangs them from her bird feeder or glues them atop the planting sticks she’s
owl’s call sounding the depth of a winter night
moon eclipse—
he asks again
what day it is
dead of winter
a wraith from the dryer vent
drifts through the fence
snowstorm
even the stoplights
slow down
painting class
children color each other
into laughter
the snow
before it falls
white sun
Stalin’s statue
in his heart
still stone