by eyes cast down | Apr 8, 2015 | Poems
Discovering Bashō (at long last) has inspired me to finally have a serious go at haiku and tanka, and take up the poetic brush again, after a 19-year break. First, there are two old ones, to clear the buffer… icy street corner, icicled bedroll huffing, bristled...
by eyes cast down | Jun 16, 2014 | Poems
This poem was published three times, making it one of my best-received. Another sad character study, like (though more unlike) Twilight Child; this described a flesh-and-blood person, not a fictional one. Between these two and Camille Claudel, there was a...