{"id":1622,"date":"2009-03-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2009-03-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T08:30:00","slug":"new-haibun-by-jeff-winke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-haibun-by-jeff-winke-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New haibun by Jeff Winke"},"content":{"rendered":"


The Leather Tassels on Them<\/span>

Gordon Johnson is an actuary. By day he plies his<\/span>
conservative trade assessing and projecting financial<\/span>
risks from natural catastrophes, mortality, and<\/span>
morbidity. He wears the modern equivalent of the gray<\/span>
flannel suit: a blue blazer, cornflower blue<\/span>
button-down collar shirt, and pressed khaki pants. Oh,<\/span>
and he also wears dress shoes with the leather tassels<\/span>
on them. He is predictable. Arrives at 8:00 a.m.,<\/span>
departs at 5:00 p.m. In the evening, he locks himself<\/span>
into his home office where he researches and studies<\/span>
imps, pucks, sprites and other fairies and<\/span>
mythological creatures. His family, neighbors,<\/span>
co-workers and clients have no idea. He is secretive,<\/span>
just like the mythic beings he studies. Yet, in the<\/span>
scholarly community of mythologists, the name of<\/span>
Gordon Johnson is renown. Even though he recently<\/span>
completed an exhaustive definitive analysis of the<\/span>
leszi \u2013 a woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who<\/span>
protects wild animals and forests, he is best known<\/span>
for his controversial treatise from 1989 <\/span>Not All<\/span>
that is Devilish is from the Devil<\/span>.<\/span>

30 years in \u2013<\/span>
the gold watch<\/span>
requires a battery<\/span>


<\/font>* <\/font>Jeffrey Winke is a haiku\/haibun poet and public relations counselor. Recent publications include That Smirking Face<\/span>, a haiku-art broadside collaboration with Matt Cipov (Milwaukee: Distant Thunder Press, 2008) and PR Idea Book: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work<\/span> (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2006). www.jeffwinke.com<\/a><\/font>
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