pink all over by tom clausen
03 Saturday Jun 2023
03 Saturday Jun 2023
30 Tuesday May 2023
Posted americana, close up details, flowers, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring
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27 Saturday May 2023
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in26 Friday May 2023
sidewalk sale-
wind twists a lifetime
guarantee tag
Woodnotes
***
taking me back…
water laps gently
at the shore
Dim Sum
***
our turn
to stand here-
falls overlook
Frogpond
***
mountain brook-
the indistinguishable spring
of voices
Mayfly
***
in the garden
sitting alone-
who i am now
Dim Sum
***
in the dark
through the window light
my wife and child
Modern Haiku
***
daybreak-
the spider centered
in its web
Dim Sum
***
long wait alone
in the parking lot…
a dog in the next car
Raw Nervz
***
on the way home
more geese
on the way home
Frogpond
***
returning the water
from the vase
to the flower garden
Dim Sum
***
letting her
walk all over me
– ladybug
bottle rockets
***
potluck luncheon
a yellow jacket cleans
its antennae
Dim Sum
***
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
***
the way
rain takes
the mountain
Frogpond
***
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
***
on the trail again…
walking deeper
into myself
Frogpond summer 1994
***
autumn moonlight
folded in
the clothes on the floor
Modern Haiku summer 1994
***
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
***
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
https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/213-c-poets/134-tom-clausen.html
24 Wednesday May 2023
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in20 Saturday May 2023
Posted americana, Dim Sum, haiku, Haiku Way of Life, photos, poems and photos
inUpstate Dim Sum is the biannual journal/anthology of the Route 9 Haiku Group. It was first published in 2001 and has appeared in spring and fall ever since then, recently celebrating its 20th anniversary of publication. The publication was inaugurated by Route 9 founding members John Stevenson, Hilary Tann, and Yu Chang. Tom Clausen joined the group in 2002 and Mary Stevens in 2021. Ion Codrescu, residing in Romania, began participating in 2006. Thus, an issue of Upstate Dim Sum usually contains 15–20 haiku and senryu from each group member and six more from a guest poet. Codrescu contributes two haiga to each issue, including one on a haiku of his own and another with a haiku by the issue’s guest poet.
Selection of material for an issue of Upstate Dim Sum begins at the Route 9 Haiku Group meetings. The group gathers monthly at the Tai Pan Restaurant in Halfmoon, N.Y. (or online via Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic). Each member offers a dozen or so new haiku or senryu, with each verse written on index cards, one for each member present. The first card is then dealt out, read silently and discussed by the group, followed by the next poet’s first poem, and so forth. At the end of the session, the favorite poems are added to a pool for the next issue of Upstate Dim Sum. Only about half of the poems in the pool are eventually used in the journal, but many others will be accepted by other haiku publications. Yu Chang is responsible for making the final selection and sequencing them in the issue (influenced by the principles of renku composition).
A centerfold spread in each issue presents six haiku by an invited guest poet. In the back of each issue, John Stevenson introduces the guest poet and provides an update on group members’ activities. A list of all UDS guest poets also appears at the back of each issue.
UDS cover art comprises photographs, most often black-and-white images by Yu Chang or Hilary Tann’s sister Helen.The journal is printed by Vincy’s Printing, Rotterdam, N.Y., in two colors, black and red, in Bernhard Modern Bold typeface. Trim size is 5″ by 7.5”. Tann and Chang handle arrangements with the printer, and Stevenson is in charge of fulfilling subscriptions. Clausen and Chang maintain the stock of back issues that are still available. Copies are $5 each, $8 for a year, and $20 for five issues; remarkably, the price of subscriptions has remained unchanged for 20 years. The Upstate Dim Sum website was started by Yu Chang; its new incarnation, by Mary Stevens.
17 Wednesday May 2023
03 Wednesday May 2023
Posted americana, birds, close up details, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring
in30 Sunday Apr 2023
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16 Thursday Jun 2022
Posted American Haibun & Haiga, americana, haibun, Published Poems, senryu
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Middle Way
At times it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry. The struggle to be, just to exist requires each of us to be true to too many things to make sense of which one is right.
a few graves apart:
neighbors who had nothing to say
to each other
American Haibun & Haiga Volume 4