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a winter cornucopia from The Heron’s Nest

By David A. Giacalone

.. The Heron’s Nest (Vol. X, No. 4, December 2008)

Like the seasons, the haiku journal The Heron’s Nest returns with comforting regularity, showing us traditional and new ways to look at the world through one-breath poetry.  THN’s editors have selected over a hundred unpublished haiku for this edition, and also included a lovingly-overflowing tribute to William J. Higginson.

A dozen of the new haiku are written by our Honored Guests.  Here are half of them, as an appetizer:

New Year?s Day
our neighbors? boots
in the mud room

 

late November
no leaves to break the fall
of heavy rain

… by Hilary Tann

split white birch
a beaver?s wake
reaches shore

…. by paul m.

icesnow ?
the stab marks
of her pronged cane

…. by Roberta Beary

budding maples ?
an updraft
of goldfinches

… by Barry George

the downpour ends
first one peep
then another

…. by George Swede

- all from The Heron’s Nest (Vol. X, No. 4, December 2008) -

The THN Tribute to William J. Higginson presents 60 poems by his admirers and students (which we all are), plus ten by Bill that appeared in The Heron’s Nest.

Here are tributes to Bill HIgginson by members of the f/k/a haijin family that you’ll find in the THN collection:

 

dusk
a half-ripe melon
frees itself from the vine

…. by Carolyn Hall

his passing . . .
the small fir collects
fallen leaves

….. by Tom Clausen

 

gray October
the poet?s voice
outlives him

….. by David Lanoue

full moon
and so my thoughts
turn to you

…. by Roberta Beary

sunset fades
from the highest peak ?
autumn chill

…. by Laryalee Fraser

temple steps ?
his shoes
in the autumn rain

….. by Hilary Tann

a memorial bell
tolls tolls and stops,
but his words . . .

…. by Alice Frampton

blue dragonfly
pine needles cover
the narrow path

…. by Peggy Willis Lyles

almost dry again
the drinking gourd . . .

….. by John Stevenson

– see our f/k/a tribute to Bill (Oct. 11, 2008)

.. .. ..   p.s. Speaking of corn and coping (and birds), Erik Turkewitz has a Thanksgiving-themed version of Blawg Review up today at his New York Personal Injury Lawyer weblog.  Blawg Review #188 is, of course, filled with links to Eric’s picks for the best recent posting on lawyer weblogs, set among his sub-theme of Arlo Guthrie and Alice’s Restaurant.  Since he and I differ on the utility of using themes for Blawg Review, Eric (after talking about copyright infringement) was gracious indeed — he re-published one of the senryu from our Thanksgiving Conversation post.

By the way, Eric pointed to Scott Greenfield’s fight against lawyer marketing and advertising at weblogs, which is a great excuse to end this post with a replica of this handy Proud No Marketing Weblog logo (which originally appeared at Gideon’s a public defender weblog, and was created by  the Urban Compass blog’s Heather Brandon of Hartford, CT; Gideon and Scott posted it in the original color with a red circle):

Full post as published by f/k/a . . . on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).