Frogpond 32.1 ⢠Winter 2009 (pdf) - Haiku Society of America
Frogpond 32.1 ⢠Winter 2009 (pdf) - Haiku Society of America
Frogpond 32.1 ⢠Winter 2009 (pdf) - Haiku Society of America
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<strong>Haiku</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>America</strong><br />
October afterglow . . .<br />
will my lucky star<br />
shine tonight?<br />
hospital window<br />
in the clear dawn sky<br />
one full moon<br />
“Bill’s last personal writing, a haibun, written Friday, October<br />
3rd, 2008, eight days before he died.” (Penny Harter, his<br />
wife, October 29, 2008)<br />
* * * *<br />
Three More Pieces by William J. Higginson<br />
More intricate<br />
than all winter’s designs,<br />
this spring flake<br />
(Winner <strong>of</strong> the first HSA haiku contest, 1968)<br />
The clock<br />
chimes, chimes and stops,<br />
but the river . . .<br />
(Winner <strong>of</strong> an HSA haiku contest, 1969)<br />
Short Song<br />
What can we do to appease it—<br />
this desire to achieve the past?<br />
Time through the ten thousand things<br />
as wind through the leaves <strong>of</strong> trees.<br />
(From his collection Surfing on Magma, From Here Press,<br />
2006.)<br />
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