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WHCrenku - Autumn Kasen


 

Autumn Kasen Renku
Selected by Paul MacNeil

 

 

NOVEMBER WIND


by John Stevenson
and Christopher Herold


This renku was a second prizewinner in the 2000
Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition
of the Haiku Society of America



November wind
leaves gather
behind the bridge

...............js

as if I knew just where to look
for the thin afternoon moon

...............ch

piping voices
a youth chorus
in the Advent service

...............js

carefully you blend the spice
for a Vindaloo curry

...............ch

blue mittens
cold fingers
feel each other

...............js

below the snow line
leopard tracks disappear

...............ch


FBI agents
rummage through a cabin
in the Montana woods

...............ch

among your books
my books     

...............js

braille
the language
of her body

...............ch

a feather's touch
raising goose bumps

...............js

two thousand feet down-
the bridge of ropes and planks
creaks and sways

...............ch

weary hikers
recross the winding stream

...............js

a dead pickerel
floats in the wake
of the moon

...............ch

while I goof off
the paint brush stiffens

...............js

thunderclap
an abrupt end
to your daydream

...............ch

the jury
is seated

...............js

feigned fear
of falling cherry petals
the mime

...............ch

was i born as hungry
as these nestlings?

...............js


vernal sunrise
........a stretch
.................in bed

...............js

presto! his twist of the truth
politically correct

...............ch

over rough ground
the path
of a rattler

...............js

through the asteroid belt
we resort to warp speed

...............ch

entering
the year 2000
home

...............js

ice fields at the eastern front
soldiers re-read old letters

...............ch

you were here
while I . . .
where was I?

...............js

one night only, she had a . . .
a certain je ne sais quoi

...............ch

in the old city
.....neon
neologies

...............js

screen saver installed
Atlantis sinks again

...............ch

apple time
the moon
just full

...............js

creative anachronists
wipe dew from the round table

                ch



Thanksgiving
with all the fixings
geriatric ward

...............ch

a heartfelt rendition
of "God Bless America"

...............js

the girl from Kansas
crowned and smiling in her first
ticker tape parade

...............ch

prairie
rife with bison

...............js

yucca in full bloom
a Hopi shaman performs
the Blessing Way

...............ch

feelers first
the ants come forth

...............js


 





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