{"id":5250,"date":"2006-04-06T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/04\/06\/haiku-you-collect-no-continge"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:01","slug":"haiku-you-collect-no-contingency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/06\/haiku-you-collect-no-contingency\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku — you collect, no contingency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s your reward today from andrew riutta<\/FONT><\/A>: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“snowflakeSN”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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darkening more<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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one crow<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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snow melt . . .<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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her only footprint<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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touches the earth<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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holding her umbilical cord<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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at the middle . . .<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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each end already taken<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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“darkening more” & “snow melt” – Acorn<\/EM> 2005<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“umbilical cord” – Presence<\/EM> 2005<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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days
become months
become years . . .
in moonlight
my beer stays cold<\/FONT><\/P>
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drunks stumble in and out of her
like cartoon characters—
wet with fallen leaves
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peeking into
this wormhole in my apple
I see a poet
thirty years from now
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at my age
falling in love
with the person
she thought I was—
autumn graveyard<\/FONT><\/P>
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yesterday
I bought myself a new hat
with ear flaps . . .
today, myriad thoughts
muffle the falling snow<\/FONT><\/P>
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one lone cricket
louder than all the others—
not one of us
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At f\/k\/a, you get all the haiku you deserve — Every visit is free.  No contingencies.  No fine print.   Here’s your reward today from andrew riutta:   “snowflakeSN” darkening more and more in morning light, one crow       snow melt . . . her only footprint touches the earth       […]<\/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-5250","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-1mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","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=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}