Haiku Christmas Cards

Starting in 1990, I made annual handmade Christmas cards, some cards being more labour-intensive than others (I made 100 to 200 copies of most of these cards). I continued making these cards until 1998, which was a red origami shirt, the design of which I learned from my new girlfriend Hiromi, who is now my wife. And then I made one more card in 2000 to celebrate Y2K. You can view all these cards on Google Photos (more than are shown below). These photos also include seven one-of-a-kind cards made in 2012 (the first four of which I made, the following three by an instructor at a Christmas card haiku workshop I helped to lead at Kogawa House in Vancouver, British Columbia. You can also read nearly all the poems at Christmasku. See “An Austrian Christmas,” a haibun of mine about Christmas in 1983, which I share annually on Facebook. See also Holiday Haiku and my 2022 Holiday Haiku video installation. The last image shown below is my digital creation that I’ve posted to Facebook in December every year since 2011.