in my pocket
yesterday's leaves--
sough of wind
We offered our haiku workshop yesterday at the library; it was co-sponsored by the Writers' Guild at Bloomington. Nancy Long organized and led an interesting outdoor exercise. She sent us to record five or more images that we noticed near the library and then advised us also to search for things that looked totally out of place or were unexpected. Funny when you turned on your radar to scout for them, it was amazing how many unusual things showed up.
Even though it's been very dry for days I noticed a large, almost water-like stain coating the sidewalk. Also, spilled and solidified around a light pole, I saw what looked like dried chocolate ice cream. Also, a bit out of place, were two vultures soaring right over downtown. The leaves were all crimson or sported that flamboyant last-blast yellow. I couldn't help wandering how the leaves looked to the raptors flying above.
The workshop participants came back and wrote about what they saw. I was impressed with the "deep seeing" that everyone did. And how people wrote about the same image with such an individual touch.
In preparation, I read haiku books and articles for days--saturated now but in a nice way. Haiku snippets from across the centuries reel through my head as I stroll through a world riotously autumn.
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