GoFundMe for Pat Campaign

Dear Friends:

I'm writing to inform you that Patricia Donegan, poet, translator, and author of Haiku Mind is not well and in need of help. A circle of her friends in Chicago launched a "GoFundMe for Pat" campaign. 

I'd be most grateful if you could pray for her health and well being. 

Thank you very much in advance. 

Sincerely,

Yoshie Ishibashi

Editor's Note: In celebration of 2016 International Women's Day, I introduced readers to Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master, edited and translated with notes by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi (Tuttle Publishing, 1998), the first English language book about Chiyo-ni’s life and poetry. This collection of her works includes “not only a representative selection of 100 of her haiku, but the only extant haibun (complete), a substantial section of renku, and, perhaps best of all, a 40-page biography and 20-some pages discussing her art.” Here are some of my favourite haiku:

at the crescent moon
the silence
enters the heart

the moon's shadow
also pauses --
cherry blossom dawn 

a hundred gourds
from the heart 
of one vine

rouged lips
forgotten --
clear spring water

from time to time
the cloud loses track
of the skylark

For more, see Cool Announcement: Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master for International Women's Day