kicking
through the leaves
sound of its season
BBC Television Regional Arts Feature, November 2003
Alan Summers
Commentary: The haiku is about a set of actions around a single image of leaves on the ground, as it’s the Fall/Autumn. What child, and even adult, has not wanted to kick through a mound of autumnal leaves! So many of us love to hear the sound of the dry crispness, and crackling sound, of the leaves that are a strong symbol of Autumn. We are literally kicking through the sound of the season!
-- excerpted from To the Lighthouse: The Unseen Go-Between in Haiku by Alan Summers
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