A Junicho (renku)

 A Junicho (renku)

 

Started July 2023

Complete October  2023

 

Campsite Magpies

fragrant breeze

campsite magpies gather

around a bin bag                rk

 

a flash shower

tops the water bucket         pc

 

checking off

another thing to do

before I die                        lmp

 

an evening of blues

and table clank                  db

 

the harvest moon

pops up between lotus leaves

in a temple pond.              ak

 

clock work orange

in the midst of Autumn's first chill    db

 

a car trembles

with the weight of two

in the parking lot.              ak

 

Casanova scarfing down

a plate of oysters               lmp

 

crushed shells

form a path through

The Mar-a-Lago Club.         rk

 

cancer cells

limited within the gland.     ak

 

until sunset

we dance in fields

of daffodils                          pc

 

as far as the eye can see

hilltopping butterflies.          lmp

 

Sabaki - Robert Kingston

 

rk - Robert Kingston

pc - Pris Campbell

db- Don Baird

lmp - Linda Papanicolaou

ak - Amoolya Kamalnath

 

Campsite Magpies” —Frogpond 47:2 Spring/Summer 2024