Sunday, January 6, 2013

January 4th

6 haiku
(for Elizabeth Catlett in Cuernavaca)


1.
La Señora
making us remember
flesh and wind
2.
O how you
help us catch
each other’s breath
3.
a woman’s
arms climbing with
colored dreams
4.
Elizabeth
slides into the pool
hands kissing the water
5.
i pick
up your breath and
remember me
6.
your hands
humming hurricanes
of beauty.

Sanchez, Sonia, from her new book Morning Haiku. Boston: Beacon Press, 2010.


A beautiful, non-traditional way to teach haiku, and the beauty of saying something very powerful with very few words.  

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