triveni spotlight
A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY!
hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh
guest editor: Billie Dee
Theme: Close Observation
the last ferry
leaves the pier—
creosote on salt air
Ce Rosenow
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Rosenow, Ce. Pacific. Hillsboro, OR: Mountain Gate Publishers, 2009.
I am pleased to submit the following selected poems from my personal "favorite haiku" list, one I've developed over the last 30 years or so. All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region). I have chosen "close observation" as my theme, a guiding principle in my own writing, and a core element IMO for developing a Haiku Mind.
Peace,
Billie Dee
p.s. Under-lined book titles have embedded links where a reader can go to purchase the book.
the last ferry
leaves the pier—
creosote on salt air
Ce Rosenow
When I first read Rosenow's highly-scented haiku, it evoked such deep childhood memories. I heard the clang of bouy bells rocking in the bay, imagined a freckled harbor seal slipping off the end of the pier into the brine, felt the cool of coastal fog and the bump of the ferry as it nosed into the docking slip. All that from ten words.
Such is the nature of smell, the most emotionally powerful of the human senses. I later gave a haiku-conference workshop on scent and childhood memory based on this very piece. The poems that emerged from that exercise were deeply felt by all who participated.
Cre…
Nice! I had to look up for the meaning of 'creosote'.
So many images in just a few words like a short film.
(Is creosote banned)