Cliff House Kukai

January 11, 2006, Dr, Akito Arima and Garry Gay, smiling

at the Cliff House during Dr. Akito Arima's visit and

after our ginko in Muir Woods. For the kukai, Dr. Arima, Garry

and Patricia Machmiller served as judges.

This was one of Garry's choices  at the kukai.

lightning-struck redwood—

inside the charred hollow

how small I am

Ebba Story

* * *

Garry won the Gerald Brady Senryu contest in 2010 

with this verse.  

   

my skeleton

going for a walk

in the cemetery

Garry Gay

and this Honorable Mention in the same contest

has been one of my favorites:

wishbone

as we pull it apart

I change my mind

Garry Gay

Frogpond; the journal of the Haiku Society of America,

 Vol. 34:, 2011 pages 168-169.