Hortensia Anderson, US, Vaughn Seward, CA, and Kirsty Karkow, US

 

 

Rengay   Almost There*   the play of light on stone and water... a slow paddle /kk our red canoe almost there— wind-blown reeds cast shadows /ha drifting in the bay— the bright sheen of her open white sails /vs another blue-black mussel from the shallows— a clang in the pail  /ha waves rapidly rolling in— sea foam forms, glistens /vs deepening sky— oars draw lines in the sand on the way home /ha *Note on the first stanza: this rengay is a response to an earlier challenge to write a rengay starting with a stanza by Chiyo-ni. How rare I thought, as I read those rengay, if the "hokku" had been by a living, contemporary poet? I chose a haiku by Kirsty Karkow, whom I consider a "contemporary classic". - ha