Bill Cooper is president emeritus at the University of Richmond. His haiku appear in a variety of journals. His most recent haiku collection is tending gumbo (Red Moon Press, 2020).
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Spoonbills do less damage to the environment than we humans, so this particular bird is forgiven. Nature is, after all, incredibly generous. Seven words/ten syllables prioritize the correct balance we so easily forget due to our own species' over abundance and neediness. Thank you, Bill. I read far wider concerns to this poem than maybe you had intended. Thus is the nature of haiku!
Spoonbills do less damage to the environment than we humans, so this particular bird is forgiven. Nature is, after all, incredibly generous. Seven words/ten syllables prioritize the correct balance we so easily forget due to our own species' over abundance and neediness. Thank you, Bill. I read far wider concerns to this poem than maybe you had intended. Thus is the nature of haiku!
wonderful haiku moment! A "splosh" and a spoon(bill) slurping. ahhh, your word choices!
Delightful, Bill.
slurp