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Turtles for Myron Lysenko

the turtle dips
its right foot
into the sea

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the left foot of the turtle
is a parking lot now

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hyang il-am
on the turtle's back
sutras for Buddha

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turtle hexagon
my head also has five sides

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who turns off the loudspeaker monk at night?

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falling camellia leaf
a one thousand won bill
on my nose

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'godness' of mercy
Amitabha Buddha
sits on her crown

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turtles are related to many things

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a poem made of a thousand turtles

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the future is sea mist
i hope for a clear day

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bballi bballi 
says the sodok-cha
in a hurry to disappear

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Buddha sneezes steam
to ward off influenza

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'bless you'
blinks the neon sign

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i leave my bags at the inn
carrying light wishes
to Buddha

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who needs a temple stay when everything is Buddha?

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every day i grow old again

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the sun will be there - there!
tomorrow

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sing your heart out
invisible bird!

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just me and the dragonflies

Cordite 29.1: Haikunaut (2009)

Just a quick note to let you know Cordite’s special all-haiku issue, 29.1 HAIKUNAUT is now uploaded and fully untold! Guest-edited by Keiji Minato and David G. Lanoue, Haikunaut features exactly one hundred new haiku by a range of poets from Japan, Bulgaria and the United States, as well as a nifty series of articles by Keiji Minato on the subject of modern haiku in Japan.

All in all, I’m pretty proud of this mini-issue, which can be accessed for freeeee!

But that’s not all, of course. You now have the chance to contribute to Haikunaut, via our special Free Haikunaut Renga! What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s kind of like Fantasy Island, without Tattoo. Keiji will be acting as MC Haikunaut, while David has ‘thrown’ the first ‘ku’ in what we hope will become a multi-author renga, co-written by you! All you have to do is go to the site, find the right comment box, enter your haiku and click ‘Submit’. Dead easy.

Fully freelance details!

Then again, haiku and renga may not be your cup of green tea, in which case you should probably know that submissions for Cordite’s next ‘proper’ issue, 30.0: CUSTOM/MADE, are now open. In fact, they’ve been open for some time, and we’ve already received a whole stack of anonymous submissions. Don’t leave it to late, is all I’m sayin’.

Get on board!

K.

Kfxbai.