The Brakeman's Lantern

This is Alan Pizzarelli leading a renku session 

at the special Haiku North America 2012 

Haiku Retreat at Asilomar

which Yuki Teikei co-sponsored with HNA and other haiku groups.

HAIKU RAILROAD BLUES

           bending back

along the railroad track

                                tiger lilies

as the train passes

      the heads of geese

                     pop out of the tall grass

 snow falls from trees

rumble

of passing boxcars

far down the railroad tracks

the brakeman's lantern

                gets lost among the fireflies

                     a train horn

                        fades into the distance

                     boxcar wheels

Alan Pizzarelli

Frozen Socks; new and selected short poems,

House of Haiku, 2015, page 182.

I have just bought my copy of Alan's new book, Frozen Socks!

It makes wonderful reading. I am amazed at the variety of things the author does with short forms. I especially like his arrangements of the text on the page, which I have tried to reproduce here as well as I could within Blogger's limits. You could easily spend $12.99 on something with a lot less nourishment in it.    jhh