Rehn Kovacic & George Held: Wednesday Haiku, #197

        The fly settles--
 reading each word of the sacred text      
              with his feet

                 Rehn Kovacic

Photo by little red house

  Little Dipper pours
water into Big Dipper -
  Splash!

George Held

Kanji: Big Dipper sake

letting the samurai
hold the sake dipper...
chrysanthemums
                    Issa
                    translated by David G. Lanoue

 

 
best,
Don

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Rehn Kovacic & George Held: Wednesday Haiku, #135

Photo by Hani Amir

   Moon
and wind chimes—
        a duet

Rehn Kovacic

 

Photo by H. Dwight Beers

  
   Crescent moon--
inhaling aroma
   of honeysuckle 

       George Held

Photo by jurvetson

shining up
the evening moon...
autumn wind

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Dave Church Remembered by George Held

George Held recently posted a fine tribute to small press giant Dave Church at the NYQ Poets site. It begins:

Opening the envelope containing the October 2008 Barbaric Yawp, I first took a look at its newsletter, "From the Marrow," and my eyes lit upon the phrase "the late Dave Church" as a contributor to Free Verse. I was shocked and needed confirmation. Before looking for the editor's phone number, I first checked out the bio notes in the Yawp and saw an editorial insertion in Dave's bio note, saying he'd died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day. Then I checked the last letter he'd written me, and saw that it's dated November 17, 2008--ten days before Thanksgiving. ... (for the rest of the post, follow here - & scroll down a bit, it's there)

In closing his tribute, George quotes one of Dave's poems to be published in a forthcoming Barbaric Yawp. He says of the poem:

This brief lyric speaks for no school, except maybe the ancient one of Basho, whose classical simplicity it recalls.

As many of you know, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on the work of Basho at this blog over the last year and, I have to say, I couldn't agree with George's assessment more. Here's the poem:

Dark sunrise.
Last night's fog and rain,
Lingering.

Dave Church

Thanks, Dave.


best,
Don