Dear Reader,

After planting daily haiku here for the last two years—and elsewhere years before that—I’ve decided to let this plot sit fallow for a while.  I’ll leave this blog open as a museum in the meantime, however long “the meantime” is.  While I’m away, I’ll be scavenging some haiku to create haiku sonnets on Derelict Satellite, my poetry site, and collecting the best for a self-published book combining my haiku and visual art.  When I can, I’ll leave notice of my progress here and on my other blog, Signals to Attend.

Thanks to everyone who visited, particularly Hames, Red Dragonfly, Jingle, Pearl Nelson, Peter Newton, hiddenamongroots, and others for their support and encouragement.  For any new visitors who happen on this space, I hope you will continue to visit the sites they sponsor and all the sites in my Blogroll.

As you haiku writers can imagine, it’s hard to give up a streak of over 5,000 lines and approximately 35,000 syllables.  I don’t know how long I’ll be away or even whether I will ever be back, but I hope to get a new perspective on haiku through the respite.  Maybe then, someday, the crop will return in full bloom again.

Keep haiku alive in cyberspace.

Fondly,

David

12/31/10: Moved Out

In the empty room

an empty box—everything

inside me at last

12/30/10: Thaw

Every corner’s collar

of snow becomes a pool for

urban steeplechase

12/29/10: Nemo

Lost in the room

a phone shuddering mutely

crying nothing

12/28/10: Haiku at 5 am

All those already

at work may have windows too

to write this morning

12/27/10: Clear and Cold

At morning’s angle—

bare trees reach into sunlight

with golden fingers

12/26/10: Post

A thin snow—

the sort you just see landing

and just feel melting

12/25/10: Xmas

Chimney drafts creeping

around my feet—some soul begs

another entry

12/24/10: More Snow

The gray season goes

white— empty branches of ash

bear weight again

12/23/10: Forecast

Anticipating

weather—the way air feels, how

we feel about it