Spring Poets Renku (2004-05)

poets wait for spring--
snow fills each leaf scar.

RP (1)


left alone
the grease falls from the
kitchen fan

EL (2)

sweet potatoes sold
in white paper cups

JH (3)


Overlooking
the nearest only seeing
far surface

MK(4)

shadows grow, sun sets --
Gion plum blooming

EL (5)


first crow caw
splits morning silence --
cold and black

RP (6)

living kyoto life
with a thousand ghosts

EL (7)


Inhaling
spirits: her plum wine,
all fragrance.

EA (8)

exhaling mountain
sighs, cedars steaming

ZS (9)

rain all night
and fierce howling wind
split peach tree

RP (10)

in bed two of us
hiding from winter

EL (11)


shadows thrown
by castle walls
hide ice

TT (12)

charging blue school skirts
clicking cameras

EL (13)


Donut King
teeny-bopper stands,
pulls wedgie

RP (14)

Burger wrappers litter
Guinness-colored Irish bogs

TT (15)

Setsubun,
burning rosary:
each bead glows.

EA (16)

BURNING HILLS RENKU (MAY 2003 - FEB 2004)

after rain
falling yesterday -
hills afire

EL (1)


narcissus explode
suck in drunken bees

RP (2)


five corks on
table now laughing
purple lips

EL (3)

weird plants on the bank
reaching me their fingers

EN(４)

harvest done --
scarecrow's lonely face
in Shiga

EL (5)

fall garden captures
skyscrapers alive

RG (6)

exhaling clouds
this frosty morning
Fuji-san

ZS (7)

senile woman's brown
cat pulls at its leash

EL (8)

half-eaten
picnic food in bag--
sudden rain

RG (9)

cobalt ajisai
sprung from a gravestone

ZS (10)

broken wing
sparrow brought home gone
this morning

EL (11)


high soaring falcon
chased by angry crows

RP (12)

stepping out
to the milky way--
no power

EL (13)

brushing bamboo leaves--
longing to see her

LW (14)

Sweeping monk
under Chiang Mai sun --
sleeping dogs

EL (15)


Cool misty morning
stray cat at the door

RP (16)