COVID summer
swinging from the tetherball pole
a length of spider web
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Mary Stevens
Mary Stevens lives in the Hudson Valley among much wildlife. A member of HSA since 2003, her haiku have been published in several journals and blogs, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku; the International Women's Haiku Festival: Women?s Voices; Now This: Contemporary Poems of Beginnings, Renewals, and Firsts; Write Like Issa: a haiku how-to; and The Wonder Code. She co-judged the 2013 Nicholas Virgilio Haiku Contest and presented ?The Cicada?s Voice: How Wabi Sabi Can Teach Us How to Live? at the 2015 Haiku North America in Schenectady, NY. She aspires to get out of her own way when writing haiku.
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COVID summer
swinging from the tetherball pole
a length of spider web
—MARY STEVENS
We had COVID Winter (December 2018), which many denied, and COVID Spring, then Summer, and we wonder what COVID Autumn or COVID Fall will bring.
Here Mary Stevens gives us a length of spider web and that game where you batted a ball against yourself, or so it seemed. Although WIKIPEDIA says it's a game of two people, or as in the photograph, several schoolboys.
However many play, it's a great metaphor! We are now tethered to spiderwebs that will morph to cobwebs hanging from a balcony perhaps.
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One of my longer monoku, inspired by the sometimes unusually long ones created by the late and much missed Stuart Quine.
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drifting clouds along an asphalt of ice cream summer roads of longing
Alan Summers
Pandemica’s Clouds (sequence)
behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19
Singing Moon Press ed. Margaret Dornaus (2020)
COVID summer
swinging from the tetherball pole
a length of spider web
—MARY STEVENS
We had COVID Winter (December 2018), which many denied, and COVID Spring, then Summer, and we wonder what COVID Autumn or COVID Fall will bring.
Here Mary Stevens gives us a length of spider web and that game where you batted a ball against yourself, or so it seemed. Although WIKIPEDIA says it's a game of two people, or as in the photograph, several schoolboys.
However many play, it's a great metaphor! We are now tethered to spiderwebs that will morph to cobwebs hanging from a balcony perhaps.
.
One of my longer monoku, inspired by the sometimes unusually long ones created by the late and much missed Stuart Quine.
.
drifting clouds along an asphalt of ice cream summer roads of longing
Alan Summers
Pandemica’s Clouds (sequence)
behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19
Singing Moon Press ed. Margaret Dornaus (2020)
Nice one, Mary. Almost haunting.
Thanks, Gary!
Congratulations, Mary! Such a haunting depiction of this new world.
Thank you, Maureen!