Fig Newtons

I have always loved this picture of Eugenie Waldteufel and Garry Gay
that I took during a California book-launch event for the book of senryu, 

Fig Newtons, 1993. which was edited and published by Michael Dylan Welch.

Perhaps it is something about the slant of Eugenie's parasol.
Eugenie is gone now, but Garry is just attending the HNA conference
in my birthplace, Schenectady, New York. Wish I could have gone! jhh

Here is a link to the description of the book on MDW's website. 

Fig Newtons won an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America's
1994 Book Awards.

This is a link to Welch's discussion of senryu in the book.

And below is one of the senryu.

afternoon mail—

the stamp from Australia

upside-down


(Sorry, I couldn't get the author of this
particular senryu from the Graceguts website
and my copy of the book is in an unaccessible archive. . .)