{"id":4962,"date":"2004-08-19T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/08\/19\/two-genuine-haiku-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:31","slug":"two-genuine-haiku-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/08\/19\/two-genuine-haiku-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"two genuine haiku lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"scales <\/font> Nolo contendere. <\/em>Call me humbledEsq<\/em>, or maybe presumptuEsq<\/em>. After seeing the haiku of Roberta Beary<\/a><\/strong> and Barry George<\/a><\/strong>, <\/font><\/font><\/font>I feel like a poseur using the pseudonym haikuEsq<\/em>. Thus, and to wit: I am pleading guilty to overweening pride, and am putting myself <\/font>on probation. From now on, please consider <\/font>haikuEsq<\/em> to be an aspiration, not an appellation.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Over the next few days, I’ll introduce Roberta and Barry individually. Their <\/font>law degrees certainly didn’t deaden their Muses. <\/font><\/font>As <\/font>Prof. Elkins<\/font><\/a> has suggested, the profession might have helped nurture the love of words and eye for material detail. However, I believe talent, disposition and sweat count a lot more than degrees and resumes.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Here’s a teaser, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku<\/em> <\/font>(Edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts, <\/font>Red Moon<\/font><\/a> Press, 2001<\/font>)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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by <\/a>Barry George<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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tagging along<\/font><\/p>\n

with an ice cream cone<\/font><\/p>\n

the senior partner<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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the cat<\/font><\/p>\n

reworks his litter<\/font><\/p>\n

summer dusk<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"scales <\/font><\/em>by Roberta Beary<\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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bills paid<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

the tiger lily <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

past its prime<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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no longer married \"sunglassesG\" <\/font><\/p>\n

only their shadows touch . . .<\/font><\/p>\n

graduation day<\/font><\/p>\n

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…………………………………………………………………… Credits: “bills paid” – Penumbra<\/em> 1999; “the cat” – Heron’s Nest <\/em>II:12<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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