the archives of f/k/a . . .

July rains and wanes, and it’s time to remind you that we’ve created two haiga calendar pages for August 2008 for your use and enjoyment. Below are sample-sized calendar pages for August from both of our free 2008 haiga calendars — the artsy Giacalone Bros. Haiga Calendar 2008 and the nostalgic fka Haiga Memories Calendar 2008.  See our prior post from last December for descriptions and links of the free 12-month calendars. (FYI: Haiga are pictures — paintings, sketches, photos –  combined with a subtly-linked haiku or similar poem.)

Just click on the sample calendar pages below to go to a printable full-size version. A link is also provided to a larger version of each of the original haiga used for the calendars.

- from the 2008 Giacalone Haiga Calendar -

[full-sized for printing]

a blue tongue
and a red mustache -
trading snow cones

poem: David Giacalone -orig. pub. Frogpond (Winter 2008)

photo: Arthur Giacalone

– larger orig. haiga – also posted at MagnaPoets JF, in b&w (July 27, 2007)

And, from the 2008 f/k/a Haiga Memories Calendar

– full-sized for printing -

the lifeboat
suddenly too small –
his guilty face

Poem: David Giacalone

Photo: MAMA G (1952)

[original haiga, Magnapoets JF, April 24, 2007]