Category Archives: motifs

HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?

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Le fils de l’homme / The Son of Man by René Magritte (1964)

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tr. by Burton Watson / From the Country of Eight Islands

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tr. by Burton Watson / Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems

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1960 / Haiku: This Other World (#436)

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September 21 1965   # e b ’ / The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner

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/ Poems 1966-1967 [Pages, Random House, 1969]

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/ A 2nd Flake (1974)

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/ Modern Haiku 6.2 (1975)

Viral 7.2  by Chris Gordon

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/ Gendai Haiku Kyokai Sakuhin-Shû (Modern Haiku Association Anthology), 1982              tr. by Fay Aoyagi

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/ Opera in the Human Body (1990) [Turquoise Milk, Red Moon Press 2011]

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/ Modern Haiku 35.1 (2004)

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/ Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), October 2008; created from a tr. by Fay Aoyagi

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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)

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/ MASKS ONE (2009)

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 / R’r 9.1 (2009)

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Chris Gordon :: Jack Dander

MASKS ONE (2009)

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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)

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:: Jack Dander / MASKS 2 (2009)

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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)

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/ R’r 9.2 (2009)

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/ The Heron’s Nest 12.1 (2010)

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/ R’r 10.1 (2010)

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/ R’r 10.3 (2010)

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/ Haidan (Haiku Stage), September 2011; new arrangement using a tr. by Fay Aoyagi

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/ A Hundred Gourds 1.1 (2011)

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A Dragon Is Born

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Pomme dragon by Salvador Dali (1969/70)

Pomme dragon by Salvador Dalí (1969/70)

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suddenly
the pregnant woman’s shout
—Year of the Dragon

Anthony J. Pupello
from Frogpond 11:1 (1988)

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Each time I’m born
from a dragon’s bone
I smile

Ban’ya Natsuishi
from Opera in the Human Body (1990)
translated by Ban’ya Natsuishi and Jim Kacian

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price of children drops
the red dragon is being
with your wounds the dance

DA Levy
from ant ant ant ant ant number 5 (2002)

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In the woods
a dragon rises
Shall I go in?

Ed Gallagher
from Asahi Haikuist Network (2009)

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Prevalence of the
Dragon. Tail color of the
Last leaf of autumn.

Charles Henri Ford
from Emblems of Arachne (1986)

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Moving anger
into clay
dragon

Marlene L’Abbe
from Raw NerVZ (1998)

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My lover
like a clay dragon
stays wet

Tomizawa Kakio (1935~1940)
translated by Masaya Saito
from Modern Haiku 24:3 (1993)

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what I cannot own the dragon takes a new lover

Jason Sanford Brown
from No. 33 (2008)

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From the fog
the rush hour bridge
a dragon’s voice

Mike Taylor
from Modern Haiku 17:1 (1986)

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Rain falls.
In each tangerine
a dragon is born.

Norberto de la Torre
from The universe in a hat (1995)?
translated by Ty Hadman
from Modern Haiku 36:3 (2005)

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a groaning in the
jungle, that dragon
made of water

Robert D. Wilson
from “Vietnam Ruminations” (2003)

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In the house of ice
playing with
a dragon nail

Yasui Kôji
translated by Ban’ya Natsuishi
from Kuhen (2003)

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In the western sky
Beauty like a sick dragon

Yasui Kôji
translated by Eric Selland
from Kuhen (2003)

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on the metro a homeless dragon to the weakening dollar

Jason Sanford Brown  
from No. 33 (2008)

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*special thanks to Charles Trumbull for assistance in putting this selection together

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The Dragon Awakens by Li Poon (2009)

The Dragon Awakens by Li Poon (2009)