Haiku artist's book

Last fall I used haiku from No more moon poems to create a one-of-a-kind artist's book. To learn more and to see more photos, check out my new post on the blue bluer books blog: http://bluebluerbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-haiku.html.

the rock wall

the rock wall
ripples
like a running wolf

Alan Watts on haiku

Don Wentworth over at Issa's Untidy Hut recently shared this, and I had to pass it along, too. A lecture by Alan Watts about haiku (and zen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XxCGFSxDTo&feature=player_embedded#!


I'm still only 15 minutes into it myself, but it's outstanding. (It's 43 minutes total...) Enjoy!

doubts

doubts
each painful as the sun
slightly empty



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(today's haiku composed of lines chosen at random from poems by Frank O'Hara. Selected from In Memory of My Feelings.)

at the diner

Inspiration these days has been coming more from Frank O'Hara and visual artists than in haiku form, so a little sketch today. This one is inspired by a Jasper Johns print in the wonderful book In Memory of My Feelings (New York: MoMA, 2005)


at the diner
in a booth,
mint green,
the painters'
animated
talk

in the shallow bowl
of the spoon
just a smudge
of black

above the fishing hole

above the fishing hole
two bobbers bob
in winter branches

in the half-tone

in the half-tone
between my voice
and the high note
it's straining to hit

every
aging
desire