Renku: Kasen - Tailgate Parties

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	Kasen: Tailgate Parties
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	new coolness- refined rice flowing off the store-front machine fogdrops from silent windchimes momentarily a stag holds the moon in his crown in the southeast sky viewing Mars strains of flute music who is practicing in the red lighthouse? sandcastles vanish with the high tide	- off eiko ops susansusu mes ily oon celia wn ky raffael ars sic ing johnye use? anish bill tide
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	the reunion ice-filled jars of sweet tea the oak's shadow over grandma's empty chair Swedish immigrants in the Statue of Liberty their first kiss sailors ogle Saudi ankles Shinyo fixes Midori's geta cord* in the pouring rain shakuhachi player alone in the subway station winter seclusion i search the internet for blowfish snow day RC and moon pies by the fire** stopping traffic to rescue an armadillo coffee house med student puffing smoke rings far below the 20th floor window blossoms like clouds spring thunder sheets flap on the line	on jars jeff tea w cliff pty chair nts erty kris kiss gle susan kles es rd* eiko rain yer raffael tation sion ernet celia fish day jeff fire** fic cue johnye dillo udent cliff ings low ndow kris clouds under celia line
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	march thermals red-tailed hawks mousing in pairs the Buddha's birthday a resonance of dharma passing through the spider's web ghost flies at the liquor store choosing his poison night game tailgate parties surround the ball park drawing from a sunken garden summer mountains erasing a bit off his nose five minutes to the bell daydreaming back to a spin-the-bottle moment the morning after scribbled love note on the bedside table along the path promises a sprig of bittersweet full moon my dog howls when I enter the house a gnarled cane against the chilly stone wall	ls wks susan pairs day johnye arma ough web raffael store jeff ison me es billpark nken garden eikosummer mountains ng nose cliff bell to kris ment after note jeff table ses stanford eet on wls raffael use ane eiko wall
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	on a billboard that says "Infinity" a raven the stuck record needle stuttering the same song playing statues each child as if caught in a photograph vernal pool the swish of tadpoles breaking the surface of shadow one violet maypole dance on the commons	rd ty" david ven edle cliff ng es ght kris aph ool susan oles ing adow celialet nce johnye ons

	mode: via email begun: September 4 2003 completed: February 17 2004 led by Bill Lerz and Johnye Strickland Contributing Poets: Susan Delaney (USA) Stanford M. Forrester (USA) Raffael de Gruttola (USA) Kris Kondo (Japan) David Lanoue (USA) Cliff Roberts (USA) Celia Stuart-Powles (USA) Jeff Whittingham (USA) Eiko Yachimoto (Japan) Bill Lerz (USA) Johnye Strickland (USA) Shinyo, a young boy, quietly helped Midori who wears those wooden geta with cloth-cords on her barefeet, in Takekurabe, a famous first love story by Higuchi Ichiyo. *The phrase "RC Cola and a MoonPie®" was well known around the South (USA) in the mid-20th Century. According to The History of the Great American MoonPie (http://www.moonpie.com/hist_text.asp),this popular confection was developed by the Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee in 1917, when one of their salesmen, Earl Mitchell, Sr., asked a group of miners who frequented a General Store he serviced, what they would like for a snack. The reply was a dessert, 'about this big,' said one of the miners, as he cupped his hands to frame the rising full moon.