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So, please sit back in the shade and enjoy Tom’s contributions to the Shiki Monthly Kukai<\/em> from April through July of 2006.\u00a0 [At the foot of this post, you’ll find the kukai topics related to each haiku. You can see the work of other contestants in the Shiki Kukai Archives<\/a>.]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n rooftop garden \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n long day \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n skipping stones \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n – by Tom Painting<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n “rooftop garden” 2nd Place, July 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai-Kigo:\u00a0 “Watering the Garden” \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 With the right presentation, as Mark Twain taught us, we can sometimes entice an entire\u00a0line of volunteers to whitewash a fence.\u00a0 Happily, on this sticky summer day, we didn’t have to\u00a0work very hard to get haiku poet and teacher Tom Painting to\u00a0cover\u00a0this blank space with his poetry.\u00a0 Indeed, add the adrenalin rush of competition […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Qw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nshe collects the rain
\nin saucepans<\/p>\n
\nhumid night
\nthe ice cream vendor
\npulls back her hair<\/p>\n
\nFort Niagara
\na wren sizes up
\na knothole<\/p>\n
\nturtle…
\nI too wish to think
\noutside the box<\/p>\n
\nthe lover’s share a pull
\nof saltwater taffy<\/p>\n
\nday’s end
\na bunch of daisies
\nin his bait pail<\/p>\n
\nI learn the meaning
\nof release<\/p>\n
\nbordering
\nthe road not taken
\nwildflowers<\/p>\n
\n“humid night” 2nd Place, June 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai-Kigo: Humid
\n“Fort Niagara” 8th place, July 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai-Free Form: bird
\n“turtle” 6th Place,\u00a0 June 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai-Free Form: turtle
\n“long day” 7th Place, May 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai<\/a>-Kigo: long day
\n“day’s end” 2nd Place,\u00a0May 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai<\/a>-Free Form: bucket\/pail
\n“skipping stones” 4th Place, April 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai<\/a>-Free Form: rock\/stone
\n“bordering” 3rd Place, April 2006 Shiki Monthly Kukai<\/a>-Kigo: wildflowers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n