aftermath of floods
the trail of this
unnamed grief
FYI: This is could be read as a sequel to the following haiku:
flashfloodallboundariesdissolve
Haiku Quarterly, 1:1, 1989
Marian Olson
And BBC News, June 17, 2024: How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXVI: "Gaza's safe zone"
written in response to Associated Press News, July 3: Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ where food is scarce and Israel strikes without warning
mule-drawn wagons
wind past one mound of rubble
after another ...
across the bottom of my screen
scrolls the text: from here to nowhere
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXVII: " flares and blasts "
to the likes of Takahama Kyoshi (1874 --1959), a student of Masaoka Shiki and the editor of the most influential haiku magazine, Hototogisu, during WWII, who claimed that "haiku was essentially the art of "singing about flowers and birds ..."
Gaza's night sky lit
by the red glow of flares and blasts
with news on mute
eyes closed and ears covered
the poet writes, skylark's trilling
Added: Game Show, 2024, LIX
written in response to NBC News, July 3: Joe Biden says he’s ‘in this race to the end’ amid growing calls to drop out
end-of-the-race dream
the earth at its farthest point
from the sun
FYI: July 5 marks the earth’s aphelion - farthest point from the sun, a big astronomical milestone called aphelion.
And The New Yorker, July 3: This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed For
If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.
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