f/k/a . . .

The book The Scare Crow: A Collection of Haiku & Senryu

(Leroy Kanterman, Ed., Hiroake Sato, translator, Red Moon Press,

1999), has dozens of wonderful haiku featuring the scarecrow, along

with an essay “The Scarecrow and Our Haiku” by John Stevenson.

 

  Here are three of the poems,

written by a trio of f/k/a’s Honored Guests:

 

 

a cricket

lending the scarecrow

a voice

             John Stevenson

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeding time

the farmer dresses the same

as the scarecrow

                              Jim Kacian

 

 

 

 

the scarecrow

moving backwards –

autumn rain

Gary Hotham 

 

 

  For more, see scarecrow: yes, strawman: no (Aug. 26, 2005),

and click for over 50 scarecrow haiku by Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue