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    the haiku blog of paul david mena

    Friday, October 15, 2004



    Mary took this photo during a Pawtucket Red Sox game in July, but it seems even more poignant now that their parent team is struggling to regain some post-season momentum at Fenway. I have to wonder if this particular haiku is too time and place-specific to have any universal appeal. On the other hand, how could I not write it?

    rain out --
    one more day to dream
    in October


    and a variation (split infinitive and all):

    rain out --
    one more day in October
    to dream

     

    Thursday, October 14, 2004



    This photo has already been accompanied by two different haiku, but none that would - in my opinion - stand on its own without the photo. The first - intended as the haiku portion of a sort of photo-haiga - was:

    Boston Common
    even a swing musician
    has to sleep

    Even though I still chuckle when I read it, I can't help but think that this is more of an explanation of the photo than a complement to it. The second was the final link (ageku) of the renku "walking blues", recently published in the web journal "Simply Haiku":

    deep sigh
    a roll of dice

    As is typical of renku, this is more of a "link and shift" from the photo than it is a companion haiku. Ideally I would like to write a haiku that captures the moment in parallel with the photo, something that seems elusive at the moment...

     



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