{"id":469,"date":"2011-12-16T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:14:00","slug":"ten-haiku-from-bill-cooper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ten-haiku-from-bill-cooper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Haiku from Bill Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

second fermenting a rounded vowel bubbles up<\/span>

*<\/span>

crayon what to draw with this new shade of blue<\/span>

*<\/span>

a tree frog<\/span>
flicking her tongue<\/span>
solar flare<\/span>

*<\/span>

no people to disturb<\/span>
their island nest<\/span>
buried ordnance<\/span>

*<\/span>

tiny troughs<\/span>
on the beetle\u2019s shell<\/span>
a sip of desert fog<\/span>

*<\/span>

approaching spoon that first scent of applesauce<\/span>

*<\/span>

aurora the sound of green swirls<\/span>

*<\/span>

a brown pelican<\/span>
at ease on the pylon<\/span>
bayside yoga<\/span>

*<\/span>

the moment we swap fear for love garden wasp<\/span>

*<\/span>

thunderhead her fire opal by candlelight<\/span>


<\/font><\/p>\n

*Bill Cooper <\/span>is
\n a professor and president emeritus at the University of Richmond.  He
\nhas been writing haiku since 2009,  and his haiku appear in a variety of
\n journals.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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