{"id":796,"date":"2010-08-26T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=796"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T10:25:00","slug":"three-haiku-by-richard-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-haiku-by-richard-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Three haiku by Richard Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">prairie flood \u2013<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">your choice of car or truck:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">a barrel of pickles<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-style: italic;\"># # # # #<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">three days of rain \u2013<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">my wife and I shop for<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">a water fountain?!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-style: italic;\"># # # # #<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Leddy Headbutter,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Oscar, Charlie Muzzlewhite \u2013<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">our jazzy blues pets<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<br \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">* Richard Stevenson<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> is a widely-published Canadian poet who lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta. His most recent publications are collections of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, and zappai: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The Emerald Hour<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> (Ekstasis Editions, 2008), <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Tidings of Magpies<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> (Spotted Cow Press, 2008), <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Windfall Apples<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> (Athabasca UniversityPress, 2010) and a lyric\/narrative collection <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Wiser Pills<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">(Frontenac House, 2008).<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prairie flood \u2013your choice of car or truck:a barrel of pickles&nbsp;# # # # #&nbsp;three days of rain \u2013my wife and I shop fora water fountain?!&nbsp;# # # # #&nbsp;Leddy Headbutter,Oscar, Charlie Muzzlewhite \u2013our jazzy blues pets&nbsp;&nbsp;* Richard Stevenson is a widely-published Canadian poet who lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta. 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