spider
in a web
trapping stars

 

 

 

(Originally published in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2020)

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Amy Losak

Amy Losak is a healthcare public relations consultant. In 2021, Amy won first place in the Haiku Society of America’s annual Gerald Brady memorial senryu contest. Amy’s and her late mother Sydell Rosenberg’s (a charter member of HSA) three books are: H Is For Haiku(Penny Candy Books, 2018; illustrated by Sawsan Chalabi; Amy wrote the introduction). This picture book was honored in 2019 by the National Council for Teachers of English as a “Notable Poetry Book.” Poised Across the Sky (Kattywompus Press, 2020. Syd’s mostly haiku and senryu chapbook.) Wing Strokes Haiku(Kelsay Books, 2022. A collaborative collection.) Amy also is a member of a group of Jewish authors, all women, who are “crazy” about children’s books: The Book Meshuggenahs: www.thebookmeshuggenahs.com. It serves as a resource for kids, families, and communities.

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  2. .
    spider
    in a web
    trapping stars

    (Originally published in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2020)

    —AMY LOSAK

    As the Fast Show might say, "aren't spiders brilliant!"

    Thank you!

    *

    Night clouds
    a spider shows me
    the harvest moon

    Alan Summers
    ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK By David McMurray (October, 2013)

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    it’s a spider night
    we huddle under stars
    surveilling us

    Alan Summers
    Weird Laburnum (April 2020)
    From the haibun: "The Angels of Lost Lists Part Zero: No One Is A List"

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  6. Dear Martin,

    I'm thinking of getting Karen to create a new course called Leap of Faith, or The Long Leap, regarding haiku. There is the outer eye and the inner eye and then there is…

    ????
    nagaihiyaku

    ;-)

    May your iPad and spiders be as boundless as the moons beyond our moon!

    Alan

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