Tracking Pips

This haiku

smashed watermelon
punctuating long last notes
oak galls & crickets

went through many permutations:

oak galls & crickets
long last notes of a summer
passing past crushed watermelon

oak galls & crickets
long last notes of a summer
passing past watermelon crushed

oak galls & crickets
passing long last notes past
watermelon crushed

oak galls & crickets
passing past long last notes
watermelon crushed

And by some leap we get "smashed" and "punctuating".

And so for day 824
16.03.2009

All Hallows Eve

A bit of haiku

grinning / mouth month
pumpkin pie / sliced / slashed
gone // all swallowed

For some reason all those back slashes remind me of a title There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978 by Michael Ondaatje. Not that pumpkins have anything to do with those poems -- it's just that knife that sticks in the imagination.

And so for day 277
17.09.2007

kennings in haiku

fierce hand knows no ire

at the end of a taut line

tugs wind riding kite

and so for day 70
22.02.07