The Port Townsend Renku Poetry Group… Strikes Again!!! : )
A S k e i n o f O l d Y a r n
An autumn kasen renku
by the Port Townsend Renku Club
Sabaki: Christopher Herold
Jay Haskins, Leticia Huber, Bethel,
Judi Komishane, Carmi Soifer, Jackie Bar,
Alison Hedlund, Carol O’Dell, Doris Thurston,
Tanya McDonald, Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, Margaret McGee
It just is…
1 autumn
.
morning light
dragonflies barely ripple
the lagoon
.
Jay
.
2 autumn moon
.
does this warmth
come from you, O moon?
.
.Leticia
.
3 autumn
.
the scarecrow’s
lost a button or two
off his coat
.
Tenzing
.
4 No Season
.
my neighbor weaves
a skein of old yarn
.
Carmi
.
5 winter
.
in his cold hut
the hermit prepares
rosehip tea
.
Bethel
.
6 winter
.
a rare visitor leaves
footprints in the snow
.
Jackie
.
7 No Season
.
just inside the door
lies an envelope
with a foreign stamp
.
Alison
.
8 No Season
.
bits of paper protrude
from the eagle’s nest
.
Jay
.
9 Love
.
her new bikini
causes his eyes to bug out
and his heart to flutter
.
Jackie
.
10 love
.
the scent of perfume
wafts from the dryer
.
Jackie
.
11 love
.
as I read my book
I hear her sing a lullaby
to our daughter
.
Carol
.
12 No Season
.
if clouds could speak
these would whisper
.
Jay
.
13 summer moon
.
summer moon
swallowed
by the mountain
.
Doris
.
14 summer
.
bats begin to swoop
all around the camp
.
Tanya
.
15 No Season
.
three girls
race for the white horse
on the carousel
.
Carol
.
16 No Season
.
somebody’s gone and left
the damn milk out to spoil.
.
Tenzing
.
17 Spring Blossom
.
cherry blossoms
tease my hand
into the branches
.
Doris
.
18 spring
.
the monthly poker game
still active during lent
.
Jay
.
19 spring
.
thistledown
has settled to the bottom
of the beer mug
.
Carmi
.
20 No Season
.
powerful gusts of wind
from the Columbia Gorge
.
Christopher
.
21 love
.
a paper airplane
with a love note on it
hits the teacher
.
Tenzing
.
22 love
.
traveling to the reunion
he hopes to see her
.
Carol
.
23 love
.
after fifty years
she still tries to change
his posture
.
Jay
.
24 winter
.
a snowman tilts
under the pale sun
.
Jackie
.
25 winter
.
there’s a brown bottle
inside my medicine cabinet
labeled “Winter Dreams”
.
Doris
.
26 No Season
.
the new kid is Aladdin
in the school play
.
Jay
.
27 No Season
.
suicide bomber
apprehended just in time
at the ticket booth
.
Christopher
.
28 No Season
.
from beyond the garden wall
a raven calls out it’s warning.
.
Doris
.
29 autumn moon
.
steam from our cider
blurs the gibbous moon
in the window
.
Carmi
.
30 autumn
.
she appears out of the fog
with a train of seaweed
.
Tenzing
.
31 autumn
.
dried fish
paid for with Chinese coins
found on the beach
.
Jackie
.
32 No Season
.
my uncle collects tolls
on the turnpike
.
Jay
.
33 No Season
.fields fly by
as our car
heads into town
.
Judi
.
34 spring
.
the first calf comes
with the equinox
.
Margaret
.
35 spring
.
violets and hyacinth
bring blue down
from the sky
.
Doris
.
36 spring
.
at the end of the long day
art students soak their brushes
.
Christopher
.
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