Gunter Hampel Group + Jeanne Lee: The Capacity of this Room (1968)

Random haiku by Issa

Read a haiku by Issa, randomly selected from the 10000 poems available at the Issa Archive site.

Samuel Menashe: The Niche

The niche narrows
Hones one thin
Until his bones
Disclose him

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
after four I’m under my host.”

Dorothy Parker (via kaustubha)

“So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.”

William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow (1923)

“A bitter morning:
sparrows sitting together
without any necks.”

J. W. Hackett