empty sandals
on the beach
pull of the moon
sept-
ember
into
the
rain-
filled
bucket
so
softly
hailstones
Carolyn Hall from Haiku: A Poet’s Guide, by Lee Guruga.
“sept-” Mariposa 5 (2001, a reflection on Sept. 11); “into” – Acorn 5 (2000)
“empty sandals” The Heron’s Nest 3:5 (2001); A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices
vain. The least the “Haiku Police” can do is suggest a very practical
yet enjoyable guide to understanding what makes a poem a haiku and
what makes for good haiku. I unequivocally recommend poet-editor
Lee Gurga‘s Haiku: A Poet’s Guide (2003) for anyone wanting to
become a better haiku reader or a haiku poet. I wish I would stop
spending so much time on the non-haiku side of my weblog and spend
more time absorbing and practicing Gurga’s advice.
You can get a taste for Gurga’s writing and insights, at the Haiku World website,
which has posted a chapter from the book called “Writing and Revising Haiku.”
As for folks who think haiku is about form rather than substance, Lee laments:
“Things have not changed appreciably since Harold Henderson
observed more than thirty years ago, “experience has proved
that beginners, unless they know at least something about Japanese
standards and conventions, are apt to produce poems that have no
relation whatever to haiku except in form.” . . .
“The number of people who are aware that haiku is not simply a
form has risen dramatically, but it sometimes seems that the number
of people who are not has risen even faster.”
Naturally, the Guide will help you understand the substance and spirit of “real”
haiku.
I
potluck
The Stick I handed him last Friday, offering an interesting peak at a Risk-geek’s reading
habits. You’ve got to love a professor who can still recite Mr. Brown Can Moo.”
Can you?
for law firms that would probably make our Decloaking campaign and Kevin Heller‘s
decloaking offer unnecessary. So, listen up firms, and treat your associates with
Since I don’t listen to podcasts, I missed Evan Schaeffer’s announcement yesterday
about redoing his weblog. Today, it is renamed Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground
[yeah! no brackets] and Evan explains more about why he is reconstructing the site.
For one thing, he notes that there was just too much weblog — and that important folk
might think he wasn’t devoting enough time to lawyering (I hope he doesn’t blame that
rascal Prof. Yabut). Around here, all the guys hope Underground stays pretty much
the same — with Evan-the-polymath-host attracting guests who are interesting and amiable.
Good luck to the new ESLU.
Thanks to the magic of Google, I just learned that ESLU is an
insurer f.k.a. Excess & Stop-Loss Underwriters, Inc.. It was
involved in a res judicata decision that outraged the good
people at SecretLaw.com.
concerning one Western NY law firm, Cellino & Barnes, suing another firm, Moran & Kufta,
for mentioning on its website that C&B was being investigated by the State grievance
committee, and linking to a news article on the topic. (“Lawyer vs. Lawyer Over Website,”
ABA e-report, , May 13, 2005; Rochester D&C, May 4, 2005). C&B is suing under a State
civil rights provision about using a person’s name in an advertisement without permission.
Count me among observers who believe that the website section in question should not be
considered advertising, and that M&K has the constitutional right to discuss news about a
competitor.
Prof. 
