From The Gifts of Bashō
The following poems appeared in The Gifts of Bashō (Gifu, Japan: Haiku Pacific Rim, 2004), the conference anthology for the second Haiku Pacific Rim conference, held 19–21 November 2004, in Ogaki, Japan, at which I was a featured speaker. To see the conference schedule, visit the website for Ikuyo Yoshimura, click the link for the Evergreen haiku group, and then scroll down to the schedule, where you can also see conference photos.
sister-city meeting—
fold creases
in the foreign flag
granddad’s secateurs
out of their leather pouch—
autumn’s first chill
spring cleaning—
dirt in the grooves
of the five-iron