{"id":4388,"date":"2006-02-18T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/18\/what-about-the-haiku\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:09","slug":"what-about-the-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/18\/what-about-the-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"what about the haiku?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good night from me and Rebecca Lilly:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Deep snow<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on the white church dome–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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not even the sparrow stirs<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Frost-melt on windows–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a bird’s delicate prints<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on sun-glistened snow<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Funeral bells toll…<\/DIV>
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pallbearers maneuver<\/DIV>
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the coffin over snow<\/DIV>
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Evening…moments<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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passersby turn to shadow<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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–the click of a latch<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"LillyShadwell\" <\/FONT>Rebecca Lilly<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT>Shadwell Hills<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Birch Prees Press, 2002)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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potluck<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  <\/FONT>Somebody Googled <\/FONT>sue giacalone<\/FONT><\/A>> this morning.  Our post <\/FONT>Sue-Dough-Logic<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(disagreeing with <\/FONT>Walter Olson<\/FONT><\/A>‘s negative thoughts on Client Protection Funds) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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was the #1 result out of 84,000.  Naturally, the f\/k\/a<\/EM> gang wonders whether the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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query is a name or a threat.   Where’s Walter when I need him? <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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This is a good opportunity to repeat that: We agree with <\/FONT>HALT<\/FONT><\/A>‘s<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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position that client protection funds need <\/FONT><\/FONT>to be better funded in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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many<\/EM> states.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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“Blackboard abcN”  <\/FONT>Dan Hull<\/FONT><\/A> at What About Clients <\/EM>has a great pointer to a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Canadian Bar Association piece on <\/FONT>writing in Plain English<\/FONT><\/A>.   Dan (who has <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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one of the most detailed “<\/FONT>About<\/FONT><\/A>-me”<\/FONT> pages in all weblogdom) says:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 “But <\/FONT>Part III on correspondence<\/FONT><\/A> is detailed, generally applicable to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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any good writing, well-thought out and useful to anyone who shares <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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this goal: put our embarrassingly medieval legal writing tradition out <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of its present misery (i.e., kill it), lovingly leave it to language and legal <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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historians, and turn it into unprententious English which clients and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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other lawyers will actually want to read. Bravo. “<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"checked Don’t forget: You can get your daily dose of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dagosan<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> at both <\/FONT>simply senryu<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A> and <\/FONT>dagosan’s haiku diary<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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You’ve waited too long for your Saturday haiku. Good night from me and Rebecca Lilly:   Deep snow on the white church dome– not even the sparrow stirs         “snowflakeSN”  “snowflakeSN”     Frost-melt on windows– a bird’s delicate prints on sun-glistened snow             Funeral bells toll… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-18M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12771,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}