{"id":7137,"date":"2006-08-28T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T01:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/08\/28\/7137\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:55","slug":"7137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/08\/28\/7137\/","title":{"rendered":"ah canada! ah haiku!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maybe it’s the too-large flock of expatriate Canadian geese that is again causing trouble here in Schenectady County, New York. (see CapitalNews9<\/em><\/a>, “Geese cause problems at airport”).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or, maybe it’s my visit over the weekend to Erie County, NY, just across the Niagara River from Ontario, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever the explanation — and it could simply be that they are such great haijin — I’ve been itching to present haiku from a few of our Canadian Honored Guests.<\/p>\n

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\"goose\"<\/p>\n

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Shortest day
\na sparrow chirps
\nin the dark<\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

under the dirty,
\none-eyed hen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a perfect
\nwhite egg<\/p>\n

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for sale
\nan old house with creaky stairs
\nand a cricket<\/p>\n

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in a corner
\nof my dark mood
\na star emerges<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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among the yellow roses
\nthe yellow butterfly
\ngrows still<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\nmy stomach growls
\nthe old tomcat opens
\none yellow eye
\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . by\u00a0George Swede<\/a>\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n“shortest day”\u00a0from The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a> (March 2006)
\nall others from Almost Unseen<\/em><\/a> (Brooks Books, 2000)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\na steady breeze
\nthe last child
\nleaves home
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\nsummer heat
\nthe crickets wait
\nfor me to pass
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

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empty cabin
\nthe beached canoe
\nfills with leaves
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n. . . by DeVar Dahl<\/a> from New Resonance 3<\/em><\/a>: Emerging Voices<\/em>
\n\u201ca steady breeze\u201d\u00a0from these silent rooms<\/em>
\n\u201csummer heat\u201d – Haiku Canada Newsletter<\/em> XIV:3
\n\u201cempty cabin\u201d – Snapshots Calendar<\/em> 2002
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"CanadaFlag\"
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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mosquitoes
\nthe slap of a beaver tail
\nat twilight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0
\nmore snow . . .
\nthe brittleness
\nof the wishbone<\/p>\n

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moving day–<\/font><\/div>\n
warm rain<\/font><\/div>\n
on cardboard<\/font><\/div>\n

. . . by Alice Frampton<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0“mosquitos” – The Heron’s Nest<\/a><\/em> (Sept. 2005); “more snow” – The Heron’s Nest<\/a><\/em> (June 2006); “moving day” – New Resonance 3<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0& The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (2002)\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

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late August \u2014
\nshe switches
\nmy fan to low speed
\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

honking out my window —
\nfrowns for the cabbie
\nsmiles for the geese
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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. . . by dagosan<\/a>\u00a0 \"DogFan\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Postnote<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Poems for his adopted city from David G. Lanoue<\/a>, for the Hurricane Katrina Anniversary:<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\nthe city recovers
\nrestaurant
\nby restaurant<\/p>\n

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\nblown away by the hurricane
\nevery stripper
\nI knew<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

her pen dries up
\nshe blames
\nKatrina
\n\u00a0
\n\"hurricane\"\u00a0 p.s.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0New Orleans’ most famous weblogging attorney, Ernest Svenson, hosts Blawg Review #72<\/a> today at his Ernie-the-Attorney<\/em> weblog.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Maybe it’s the too-large flock of expatriate Canadian geese that is again causing trouble here in Schenectady County, New York. (see CapitalNews9, “Geese cause problems at airport”).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or, maybe it’s my visit over the weekend to Erie County, NY, just across the Niagara River from Ontario, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever the explanation — and it could […]<\/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-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6kP1R-7137","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","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=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12633,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}