L'aura del Campo

#18 "haikuish" tataki sashimi ktanka

I have to make a category for my "humorous" offerings. There aren't that many... but... tataki is for the short poems that have a sense of a place... and maybe a photo. Sashimi is for vaguer memories, especially those without a place. Ktankas are 5 lines. But there are other similar forms. Older forms like waka might not fit. Must investigate further.

Right now I wrote:

Act your age they
scolded — I sleep peacefully
in my coffin

[175.227a]

Or should that be "fitfully" instead of peacefully?

Back to the grind:

590 94a We sit around a table and chat — a crow interrupts then leaves
591 94b How water clings / to clothes piled on top of / one another // How once hung, water loses / its hold; now folded, piled KTANKA?
592 94c Black toe healing — / he avoids rocks and / door jams
593 94d Three grassy / hillocks — a quiet place / for a picnic *FF
594 94e Along the rising / river — beware the bicycle / traffic
595 94f A red winged / flicker — a telephone pole / provides refuge *FF?

596 95a Sunny April day / after winter clouds — smell / of roasting corn
597 95b Half hour before / closing — a table to myself / I nurse my coffee
598 95c The music / ends — a hush of yellow-/ bells blooming
599 95cd A hush of / yellowbells — blooming / by snowdrifts
600 95d First flowers bloom / by snowdrifts — trees overhead / barely yawn
601 95e Impressed in tin — / beauty of another age still / holding beauty
602 95f Unaware of / death — a bouquet blooms / gloriously
603 95g River rages / mixes dirt and water — I / stir my coffee

604 97a You aren't here to see the river flood — it cannot carry away your bones (rethink)
605 97b Seen through slats — / the river surfers blink / in and out
606 97c Surfers brave / the sunshine roar of the / rising river
607 97d Clouds don't promise / rain — under parasols we / smile at each other
608 97e An audience / gathers: surfers, kayakers, / sun
609 97f Where children / play this sunny day — / dragons sleep (thinking of Frances) *FF?
610 97g Empty balconies / face the sun — oldsters sleep / in their caves (Clark Fork) *FF (old bears? referring to old people?)

611 98a Snow melts; / rivers widen; islands / disappear
612 98b Spring rains Islands / disappear — ducks huddle / on the banks *FF?
613 98c Leaves bud — one / duck worries the mud / in the canal
614 98d Someone peeing / in public — birds watch / unnoticed
615 98e My lost scarf / walks by — glad she needed it / more than me
616 98f Sunny warm day — / we air out our room, / our legs

617 100a A butterfly / emerges with paper wings — / my thoughts mere scraps *FF
618 100b Tsunami warning / etched in stone — I look down / at the city
619 100c He wobbles / to the toilet — golden throne / or a hole
620 100d Young cottonwood / lies (dead) in the water — gnaw marks / on its trunk
621 110e I have no / car — I love to travel / far too much
622 100f The fork lies / in the road — ready to be / of some use
(cannot read my writing)
623 110g Old man flaps / his black sleeves — one crow / warns another

94,95,97,98,100 [4/22]

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

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