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• 1 schmwarf // Aug 26, 2009 at 12:09 am

  If there is perspiration on the brow then the A/C is not doing its job.

  Unless I’ve missed something deeper.

• 2 skzb // Aug 26, 2009 at 11:53 am

  Gee. I dunno. Could he have composed the poem before getting into the truck?

• 3 Miramon // Aug 26, 2009 at 12:51 pm

  Nice. Who knew BBG was a philosopher and a poet?

  I think technically he shouldn’t have mentioned the season directly in a haiku, but should have used a kigo associated with the season. Something like, say, “Buzzing cicadas” (do cicadas buzz?)

• 4 skzb // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:35 pm

  winter garden
  the moon thinned to a thread
  insects singing
  – Basho

  spring rain–
  a child gives a dance lesson
  to the cat
  — Issa

  He says a word,
  and I say a word – autumn
  is deepening.
  — Takahama

  First autumn morning:
  the mirror I stare into
  shows my father’s face.
  – Murakami

• 5 Miramon // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:53 pm

  Bah. Stupid article on kigo lied to me, evidently. Good references though. Guess BBG knows more about haiku than I do.

• 6 schmwarf // Aug 26, 2009 at 6:24 pm

  I’m enlightened.

• 7 AShortt // Aug 27, 2009 at 12:27 pm

  I think haiku is pretentious even if it doesn’t mean to be.

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