open sky :: SAMVAAD/ 13th April
- sanjuktaa
- Apr 13
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
the same light our bodies are made of falling leaves
-- Matthew Moffett
(the Heron’s Nest vol. 26, no. 1, March 2024)
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Lovely poem!!!
The poet has this very interesting backstory.
"The story behind it is that I was meditating and had the sensation of my body falling apart into fragments, which felt like leaves falling from a tree and blowing away in the wind, but at the same time the fragments were merging into the energy of everything else around it. At some point during/after that experience, the words that made up the poem started coming to me in different arrangements and eventually this one was the one I settled on because of the way it revolves around two meanings of the word “light” (something that’s not very heavy and the kind of energy) and the way it combines two separate phrases that…
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/celebration
Check this!!
Lorraine Haig has won the TOUCHSTONE Award for her haibun - Trapped
2024 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun – Awarded Haibun
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, Lorraine.