{"id":9492,"date":"2008-06-17T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/06\/17\/summers-coming-for-real\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:26","slug":"summers-coming-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/06\/17\/summers-coming-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"summer’s coming for real"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/strong><\/em>ith summer arriving officially later this week (preceded by violent thunderstorms and hail yesterday<\/a>), I thought we’d let Dr. Bill Owen put us in the mood, with selections from his haiku notebook<\/a><\/em> (Lulu.com, 2007; 58 pages; see our prior post<\/a>). Having downloaded it (for a mere $3.95), Prof. Yabut and I are having fun playing with the Search function and finding little gems throughout Bill’s notebook<\/em>.<\/p>\n

w.f. owen\u2019s haiku notebook<\/em><\/strong> . . . <\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>
\n. . . . the book<\/a> and the weblog<\/a> . . . .<\/p>\n

\n
<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

summer solstice
\nfloating on our backs
\nwatching the clouds<\/p>\n

\n

summer solstice
\nstretching the tape measure
\nwith grandfather<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

night fishing
\na few bites
\nfrom mosquitoes<\/p>\n

distant thunder
\nthe neighbor\u2019s dog
\nscratches the door<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

Indian summer
\nrust on our hands
\nfrom the swing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n

\"frisbeeFlyingF\"<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

the slow creak
\nof the porch swing
\nlate summer dusk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

bumper crop
\na watermelon
\nholds the door open<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

last rays of sun
\nsweet corn
\nbetween my teeth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

……… by w.f. owen<\/a> – from haiku notebook<\/a><\/em> (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Footnote: you’ll find more summer solstice haiku and senryu here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

late-comers:
\nfireflies join
\nthe solstice party<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 by dagosan<\/em> (06-20-04)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With summer arriving officially later this week (preceded by violent thunderstorms and hail yesterday), I thought we’d let Dr. Bill Owen put us in the mood, with selections from his haiku notebook (Lulu.com, 2007; 58 pages; see our prior post). Having downloaded it (for a mere $3.95), Prof. Yabut and I are having fun playing […]<\/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-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2t6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","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=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12257,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}