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A Haiku A Day - a film by Tom Elkins, words by AJ Dehany With Lewis Archer, Dan Barrett, Hannah Battershell, Alix Campbell, Daniel Cross, Emily Davies, Amy Alice Dee, AJ Dehany, Tom Elkins, Rav Casley Gera, Gerv, Caroline Hacker, Margarete Knorr, Nick Newman, Phoebe Osborne, Russell Parton, Ben Reynolds, Kate Saleh, and Robin Wilks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc-zOrsQl70 http://threepractices.com http://ahaikuaday.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/ahaikuaday http://facebook.com/ahaikuaday

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          sun   r    i     s      e                             the                        day     is                              up                      m     o    o   n  fall

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the lonely art           of winter — figures                  in a landscape 22-12-2013

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Neil Hennessey's Basho's Frogger (2002)

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"Here is/ what there/ is." - Robert Creeley

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Derry Haibun Revisited

It's one year since I posted the Derry Haibun. Haibun is a form combining prose and haiku. Bashō pioneered haibun as travelogue but he also embraced character sketches, landscape scenes, anecdotal vignettes and occasional writings, as well as essays.                   wild salmon sky                               the horizon                                           breaks the flax Derry Haibun (Dec 15) is an account of my first trip to Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland, nattering about its history and some of my experiences over a weekend there. Derry Revisited (Oct 5) from ten months later finds me back in Derry but overwhelmed by its dark history, resorting to a style of gonzo modernism to unwrite what I'd written before, trying to move beyond that history. To be continued . . .

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when it was hot             crow on the chimney pot                         winter smoke

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a swallow         flying, a tiger                       in repose (via Robert Spiess via Kukai)

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her laugh  like a magnet  to a magnet

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"For haiku poets, each day is a distinct and individual season." - Robert Spiess

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"The poet thinks with his (sic) poem, in that lies his thought, and that itself is the profundity" (William Carlos Williams)

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from Cor van den Heuvel's Sun in Skull

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Antidisestablishmentarianism Isn’t the longest. (8-12-12)

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all bloody night       a woodpecker headbanging             in the fan heater (7-12-13)

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In enduring realms of sky above and the sea below, brittle stars. (6-12-12)

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clouds over the sea, a sea of clouds (Brighton, December 5)