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haiku circle by tom clausen

29 Monday May 2023

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Tom Clausen: 2022 Reader

Tom Clausen (www.tomclausen.com) is a life-long Ithacan living in the same house he grew up in with his wife, Berta. He became interested in haiku and related short forms of poetry in the late 1980s after reading an article that profiled Ruth Yarrow’s haiku. There was instant recognition that haiku was a form that might help with his tendency of wordiness, repetition, and overstatement. He has been reading and writing haiku, senryu, tanka, and little poems ever since.

Tom is the curator of a daily online haiku feature at Mann Library, Cornell University, where he worked for over 35 years before retiring in 2013. In 2003, Tom was invited to join the Route 9 Haiku group. The group publishes a journal twice a year, Dim Sum, featuring selected work by members John Stevenson, Hilary Tann, Mary Stevens, Yu Chang, Tom Clausen, and a guest poet, as well as haiga by Romanian artist and poet Ion Codrescu.

Tom enjoys walking, biking, photography, music and simply observing and documenting what there is to be found. He especially cares for cats and deer. 


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26 Friday May 2023

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sidewalk sale-
wind twists a lifetime
guarantee tag

Woodnotes

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taking me back…
water laps gently
at the shore

Dim Sum


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our turn
to stand here-
falls overlook

Frogpond


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mountain brook-
       the indistinguishable spring
                     of voices

Mayfly


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in the garden
sitting alone-
who i am now

Dim Sum


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         in the dark
through the window light
     my wife and child

Modern Haiku


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daybreak-
the spider centered
in its web

Dim Sum


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long wait alone
in the parking lot…
a dog in the next car

Raw Nervz


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on the way home
   more geese
      on the way home

Frogpond


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returning the water
      from the vase
               to the flower garden

Dim Sum


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letting her 
walk all over me
– ladybug

bottle rockets


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potluck luncheon
a yellow jacket cleans
its antennae

Dim Sum


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the cat’s eyes
so wide…
for a gnat

HN 2001 Members Anthology


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undefended:
in the cold raiN
their snow fort

Frogpond



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the way
rain takes
the mountain

Frogpond



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Ducks riding the lake
brushed rough by wind;
pilings rimed with ice

Modern Haiku 1988


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mountaintop:
giving back
each breath

Brussels Sprout   v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994


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lunch alone
without a book
i read my mind

Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994



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rushing
 to the zendo to sit
still

Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.2  May 1994


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daybreak-
rubber duck alone
in the empty tub

Haiku Quarterly  summer 1994


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on the trail again…
walking deeper
into myself

Frogpond  summer 1994


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autumn moonlight
folded in
the clothes on the floor

Modern Haiku   summer 1994


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the way
the light bulb rests
in the rest of the trash

Modern Haiku fall 1994


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day break-
from the bread truck’s roof
frost swirls

Woodnotes  #25  


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one tree
one bird, one song
the dusk

Frogpond  1995


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x-ray room
they remove
her crucifix

Modern Haiku  fall 1995


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alone in the waiting room
checking the plant
for reality

Woodnotes  1996



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