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 |