Brunch Renku
The following is a thirteen-verse renku, one verse per poet, written at a joint meeting of Haiku Northwest, the Port Townsend Haiku Group, and the Bellingham Haiku Group, held on 2 May 2010 at the Farmhouse Restaurant near La Connor, Washington. Renku led by Christopher Herold, who noted in email that this was “dashed off in the midst of eating, drinking, and conversation.” Participants were Alice Frampton, Ida Freilinger, Jay Haskins, Alison Hedlund, Christopher Herold, Carole MacRury, Tanya McDonald, Carol O’Dell, Carmi Soifer, Angela Terry, Doris H. Thurston, Tenzing Karma Wangchuk, and Michael Dylan Welch (my verse is “the moon through the window”; other authors are unidentified).
computer crash
now I can see
the moon
ducks splashing down
fracture pond-stillness
a v of jets
cross the blue
of the morning
sitting down with her needlepoint
she chooses her background colors
cows stand
low at the fence
among scattered daisies
photographs on the wall
the shadows highlighted
standing straight
into the sky she feels
the warm sun
a bucket of beach sand
upended in the shallows
the moon through the window
of the station wagon
rowdy teenagers
a new use for the wooden yoke
restaurant décor
fingerprint
of eons in the grain
of the kitchen table
grandma’s copper kettle
losing its luster
he whistles
and the garden tour assemblage
quiets down
