another day of rain

rusted through . . .
wasp through . . .
midsummer heat

Dharma Bum Center, Downtown San Diego

"See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures."

--Jack Kerouac

a new haiga at Magnapoets Japanese Form

Magnapoets Japanese Form.

tinywords.

letting go of

Blog of Note

Check it out!
Wordfield's Haikai Pub by William J. Higginson
"Serving up books, magazines, things that come in the mail, all related to haiku, haibun, renku, tanka, senryu, and such."

a rousing cheer

backroads of delaware county

My book of haiga, the backroads of delaware county, will no longer be available after December 31, 2007. Sales to date: 126 copies! Way more than I expected (I was hoping for, like 30). But I am working on my next book (for 2008) and will make backroads unavailable at the end of this year. Thanks to everyone for your support, it was awesome.

In the meantime it's still available HERE.

all those years