f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku

   The fine folk at The Heron’s Nest have invited us up for a lovely, lazy Labor Day weekend at their place — with the enticement of a brand new edition of their premiere genuine haiku journal.  As usual, f/k/a‘s family of Honored Guest Poets were rewarded for their haikai labors by being selected in large numbers to appear in The Heron’s Nest  Vol. IX: 3 (September 2007).  A dozen of f/k/a‘s finest have the following 16 poems in the new edition:

loon call
a kayak emerges
from the fog

stepping stones
she moves
a little closer

…………….. by Yu Chang

mid-week
the crouch
of a grasshopper

……………… by Alice Frampton

tug of her hand —
a heron one breath away
from the sky

………………….. by Laryalee Fraser

choppy river —
bursts of the coxswain’s orders
on the wind

………………………………. by Barry George

empty pan
on the radiator —
May begins

…………………….. by David Giacalone

Mother’s Day
filling the bare spots
with nasturtiums

scudding clouds —
the creak of wagon wheels
through Grandfather’s journal

………………………. by Carolyn Hall

death watch —
clouds connect the sky
one end to the other

……………………………. by Gary Hotham

early to the station
ducks fly overhead
in pairs

we pass
humming different tunes
winter moon

…………………………… by paul m.

this Halloween,
children born since
9/11

………………… by John Stevenson

Dry creek bed
the seven stepping stones
to the other side

House for sale
a vine almost to the end
of the laundry line

……………………….. by George Swede

clear day . . .
a painted turtle
takes the plunge

  …………………………. by Hilary Tann

the kite’s tail
ripped from knotty branches —
mockingbird song

……………………………… by Michael Dylan Welch

  Of course, there are dozens of other excellent poets whose work can be found in this and every other edition of The Heron’s Nest.  Congratulations to  Chad Lee Robinson, Robert Bauer and A. Thiagarajan, whose poems were honored as Editor’s Choices in the September 2007 edition of The Heron’s Nest.  Click here to see their poems.

And, a bonus from Alice Frampton, with best wishes in her “new” home back in her home town.

moving day–
warm rain
on cardboard

long dusty road:
I wait by the mailbox
for the cloud

watering the grass–
a smile from the man
who passes by

solid ivy:
I search for the faucet
to water

……………………………….. by Alice Frampton from New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices

“moving day” – The Heron’s Nest IV:7