At the End

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” all come to an end. The first poem is a parody of a famous avant garde gendai haiku by Hakusen Watanabe (he had said “war,” not “wart”). And an earlier version of the third poem had “silence” instead of “birdsong.”

at the end

of the corridor

the wart

             (written 2011, published 2020)

at the end of the grey horizon              a ship

             (written 1992, published 1998)

at the end of the valley              birdsong

             (written 1990, published 1991)