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A Mason Jar a summer shisan renku by internet Betty Kaplan (Florida, US) Debra Woolard Bender (Florida, US) Hortensia Anderson (New York, US) completed 16 May 2000

        

he brings fireflies in a mason jar... the picnic table .............. bk green tea poured over crackling ice .............. db surfcasting - the algae covered rocks slippery .............. ha at the Harvest Moon Ball they glide across the floor .............. bk a flock of wild geese overhead, socks flapping on the clothesline .............. db wedding bells sound at Church of The Good Shepherd .............. ha her broad smile - feeling the baby's kicks down the aisle .............. bk quilted blanket shared with the dog .............. db a walk in the woods, sunlight through leaves on a heap of bones .............. ha whose skeleton in the closet Aunt Martha never tells .............. bk paper dolls in ashes strewn with peach petals .............. db soap bubbles billow as the children clap hands .............. ha

 

              
Read Paul MacNeil's Lesson Essay, Defining Renku from WHC Haikuforum Renku Seminar 200

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