Kiyoko leads haiku study at Asilomar

Ar Asilomar, overlooking the gorgeous Monterey Bay, we discuss haiku we have written 

during one of our Yuki Teikei Haiku Retreats, probably in the late 1980s. 

There was just a little breeze. 

I am not in the photo because I was talking it--well before the era of selfies! 

Kiyoko Tokutomi is at the center. At left are Ebba Story, 

a well-known and widely published haiku poet, 

and Patricia Macmiller in her fabulous coat, 

with strips of sewed-on crinkled denim. 

On the left Hank Dunlap is flanked by two poets 

whose names have left my data bank; 

I can add them here when anyone remembers. 

[Promise yourself to label and date your own photographs!] 

Hank's haiku book Cry of the Hawk was published in 1993 

and is now out of print. 

I remember well his many haiku about his "old dog." 

Hank died in 2005.

on the patio

the afternoon drifts along

with the butterfly

Patricia J. Machmiller

Haiku Mind; 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness 

and Open Your Heart 

by Patricia Donegan. 

Shambhala, 2008, page 65.