Within the larger work occurred poems that did not fit the haiku form that I had began with. I started expanding to other ideas as part of the work.
“The Cup”
One cup at the wellspring filled another and another to overflowing and so filled the well too. And when the rising water overtook it was no longer the cup but the well.
YouTube Video Link: “The Cup” 1:09 minutes
Haibun
“Horseshoe Crabs“, composed of three haibun (prose and haiku) about Water, is part of a larger set of poems about the four elements. Its companion piece, “Green Apples”, is about Fire.
“Horseshoe Crabs”
In ’94 I visited Cape May, New Jersey with my sister. Every year on the full moon of May great numbers of birds converge there for the eggs of horseshoe crabs. As the sun touches the western horizon and the full moon breaks over the east, terns and red knots go into a frenzy. As the crabs lay their eggs they are tossed about by waves, with birds diving into the water, some riding the crabs in the rough surf.
Small green eggs, this transcendent chaos between sun and moon and earth, this affirmation of time’s greater purpose.
sunset, moonrise –– / waves passing into silence / into light
YouTube Video Link: “Horseshoe Crabs” 5:17 minutes
