Wednesday, August 20, 2008

a tree branch adrift
all those tangled banks upstream
and yet you are here

(derived from the summer haiku 2008 header)

6 comments:

Isabel said...

I took the picture in late April or early May, when the Mississippi River was just rising, but before the floods of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, etc.

I am glad it inspired you.

scatterhaiku said...

@workingwords100: it did. :) i'm glad you took it.

Beatrice V said...

I love this.

scatterhaiku said...

@wordcrafter: thanks for the kind words. :)

Area 17 said...

Very evocative. It feels very much like a tanka, which is no bad thing of course. ;-)

kouji said...

thanks alan. :)

(formerly scatterhaiku)