Many years ago I received the wonderful book The Haiku Year as a gift. It is a collection of non-traditional haikus from 7 friends (including Michael Stipe of REM) all of whom decided to write a haiku every day for a year. It is a beautiful and sometimes surprising collection of short poems that I […]
It’s my birthday today. Here is a haiku. these ripples sometimes take a long timeto reach the shore
I have been reading The Far Side cartoons with my kids over the past few months and I have been pleasantly reminded of how truly brilliant, concise and hilarious they are. In many ways they are the perfect little cartoon haiku. There is so much densely packed into each frame, and that constraint leads to […]
