From Raku Teapot Haiku
Published
in Raku Teapot Haiku (Alton Bay, New
Hampshire: Raku Teapot Press, 2003), a collection of 143 haiku by twenty-four
poets, edited by Zolo and Layne Russell. The book also included a compact disc
with recordings of all the poems. Contributors were all members of the Raku Teapot online haiku discussion group, which thrived from early 2001 until late 2004 or sometime in 2005. In my biographical note included in the book,
I wrote that “The poems here were chosen for their focus on sound.” See also “2004 Raku Teapot Award” for results of a haiku contest I cojudged with Hortensia Anderson for the Raku Teapot group.
an old fiddle case
takes my coins
and the rain
a
crab apple
from
the highest branch
rattles
down the rain spout
snow-swept crossing—
the shudder
through freight cars
pressing
the cold shaver
to my face—
the
motor changes pitch
empty silo—
spring wind pops the metal
in and out
wet
beach sand—
a sandpiper’s song
of footprints
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