Simply Haiku: An E-Journal of Haiku and Related Forms
November-December 2004, Volume 2, Number 6
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  Junicho: Another Pond  

 
  red .... white
............buoys bob
currents change		 dG  
  ....seagulls separated
by a thousand waves		 K  
  ....unseen stars
radiate on the ocean floor --
Deer Island		 dG  
  ....spawning of eggs
a feast on the beach		 K  
  ....jet's shadow --
the right whale
beside herself		 dG  
  ....wind surfer
falls with a splash		 K  
  ....out of the shell
her Venus mound
still dripping		 K  
  ...."moon for the misbegotten"
"sunken schooner"
 dG  
  ....ghost of the tall sail
haunts the captain
with one eye
 K  
  ....sunbathers in bikinis
their children build sandcastles
 dG  
  ....footprints erased
one by one
by the high tide		 K  
  ........seaweed
washed ashore		 dG  
         
 

The de Gruttola residence, M.A. Sunday July 1st 2001
Words: Shokan Tadashi Kondo, Raffael de Gruttola
Music composed by Peter Zay for
Anastasia de Gruttola, violin; Peter Zay, cello

  
 

"moon for the misbegotten": a play by Eugene O'Neill
"sunken schooner": a haiku collection by Margaret Saunders