tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post3657685270376316985..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: No Way Out Haiku by LeRoy GormanChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-67308161721471415922017-10-31T07:53:57.505-04:002017-10-31T07:53:57.505-04:00Below is excerpted from "Nest Feathers – Sele...Below is excerpted from "Nest Feathers – Selected Haiku from the First 15 Years of The Heron’s Nest," reviewed by Rodney Williams (A Hundred Gourds, 5:3, June 2016)<br /><br />Moving our focus back up to Canada, we likewise find a shift in theme, again discerning a sense of charm in response to children – offset by a bleak humour – this time in relation to Halloween:<br /><br />no way out<br />Death’s at the door<br />demanding candy<br /><br /> - LeRoy Gorman (Volume 12, Number 1, 2010)<br /><br />While the inevitability of mortality is ironically seen as being just as inescapable (‘no way out’) as the obligation to provide candy to children trick-or-treating ‘at the door’Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com