Montage

Montage #33,
presented by Allan Burns,
is now up
on The Haiku Foundation website.

Montage #33 (“Three Poets of the UK”) features haiku by John Crook, Caroline Gourlay, and John Barlow.

ancient stone circle
the flow
of a robin’s song

— John Crook

                                                                                bark of a pheasant
                                                                                sinking into silence
                                                                                winter afternoon

                                                                                — Caroline Gourlay

something startles
the rabbit field…
mackerel sky

— John Barlow

#32’s theme is “Looking with the Universe” and features the work of Lee Gurga, Robert Spiess, and Charles Trumbull.

                                                                        exploring the cave . . .
                                                                        my son’s flashlight beam
                                                                        disappears ahead

                                                                        —Gurga

Muttering thunder
  the bottom of the river
    scattered with clams

—Spiess

                                                                        . . . but in the window
                                                                        of the doctor’s waiting room
                                                                        a cloudless sky

                                                                        —Trumbull

#31’s theme is “The Little Truths” and features the work of Issa, Cherie Hunter Day and Ferris Gilli.

   The pheasant cries
as if it just noticed
   the mountain.

— Issa

                                                                                night heat
                                                                                nothing moves
                                                                                but the gecko’s eyes

                                                                                — Gilli

a skull no bigger
than my thumbnail
jasmine in bloom

— Day

#30’s theme is “New England Sketches,” featuring the work of three New England haiku poets: Peter Yovu, Bruce Ross & paul m.

unemployed
the uneven edge
of a quahog shell

— m.

                                                                      Thoreau’s gravesite:
                                                                      the smell of woodsmoke
                                                                      on the cold spring air

                                                                      — Ross

the mountain path
winding up
at a snail

— Yovu

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”