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Bedsprings

Bedsprings
Fuga no makoto–– poetic truth “While walking across a familiar field, I noticed for the first time a set of bedsprings rusting in the grass. I pulled out my notebook and quickly jotted down two lines: bedsprings in the weeds–– / scent of sweet spring leaves Modern Haiku Vol. 34.2 “I was opening to impermanence, and…
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The Same Dream

The Same Dream
As the eyes in the room were watching for chicanery on my part, the pendulum slowly began to stir. My hands were still. To everyone’s delight the pendulum seemed to move with a determination of its own, back and forth- just across the poem at first, in the small space of the letters, and then beyond…
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The Moon in the Cup

The Moon in the Cup
Recently some have been visiting stones in the landscape and photographing their friends there with digital cameras. Something odd is happening- multiple images are being recorded of the same person in the presence of these stones--not the same image twice, but different images of the same person occurring at once. In one image the person…
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A Haiku Year

A Haiku Year
In this video and essay about the process of exchanging a haiku a day for a year, a path of discovery and awakening is revealed through a walking meditation with haiku as the focus. In the video version linked below some of the hundreds of illustrated postcards are featured, including drawings, photos, scans, graphic design…
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