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This is a reprint of the book
published in 1990
by AHA Books

ISBN: 0-944676-20-0
Library of Congress Number:
90-85708
AHA Books
POB 767
Gualala, CA 95445


Round
            Renga
                        Round

Edited by Jane Reichhold

    
   
     
     

FLOATING MEADOW
Werner Reichhold
Francine Porad

 

                                    floating meadow
                                    through the eye into my hand
                                    watercolor

                                    strange shapes
                                    the wordless things I know

                                    in a green splash
                                    the sound of an osprey
                                    diving

                                    snorkelers bypass
                                    the kelp beds

                                    circle of a mask
                                    in an ocean jungle
                                    the moon

                                    lunar pull or shifting plates?
                                    earthquake!

blast-off!
space probe
bound for Jupiter                                                       

the night a tumble
down into eyes, stars                                                   

first love
the conversation pivots
back to Ann                                                                

light between fingers
a fan smoothes the sand                                                           

beach blanket twosome
engagement ring
sparkling                                                                    

a non-existing
almost named                                                              

skydragon
and chrysanthemums -
the hand-blown bowl                                                 

moonlit opal
curves on ebony                                                          

black is beautiful
Reverend King's march
so long ago                                                                 

the speaker's oval mouth
a vocal gesture                                                             

boisterous applause
long-stemmed roses
rushed onstage                                                                       

clouds of numbers
power guided disk                                                       
                                                January words
                                                printed out on pages
                                                winter white

                                                sale! sale! sale!
                                                new spread on the bed

                                                Amish decoration
                                                a bee and honey-making
                                                patches overlap

                                                his faded jeans -
                                                traveling incognito

                                                fake alligator
                                                wallet hides a boy's
                                                invalid car license

                                                stomping with numb feet
                                                the endless stretch of road

                                                barefoot in marble
                                                girl and her floral past
                                                chiseled by a sculptor

                                                artwork for charity
                                                to the highest bidder

                                                bite of a dealer
                                                deep into a collector's
                                                hidden dream

                                                a Cezanne of his own
                                                every rock and tree known

                                                through a picture window
                                                a child's finger follows
                                                the moon

                                                stars and a rainbow
                                                in the same drawing

 

eerie landscape
mounds of earth
concealing secrets                                                      

black hole with sphere music
space dug by a concept artist                                       

three by six by six
measurement necessitates
a grateful prayer                                                        

giving it the strength of wings
the wind knows the message                                        

in a cherry orchard
the healer
and the healed                                                            

legendary light
channeled through the soul  

                                         

                       
September 21, 1989
March 26, 1990

Gualala, California
Mercer Island, Washington

 

Published in LYNX III:3 Summer, 1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 How This Book Began

FIFTEEN KASEN RENGA

Night Wind
Suezan Aikins
Brent Partridge


The Sun's Glitter Francine Porad
Suezan Aikins


Lightning Flash
Suezan Aikins
Jane Reichhold


Expanding Color
Werner. Reichhold
Suezan Aikins


Deeper into the Dream
Francine Porad
Brent Partridge


In Hand
Brent Partridge
Jane Reichhold


Bridge and Mist
Brent Partridge
Werner Reichhold

 

Sky Country
Jane Reichhold
Francine Porad


Floating Meadow
Werner Reichhold
Francine Porad


Both Sides Open
Jane Reichhold
Werner Reichhold


White Butterfly
Suezan Aikins
Charles B. Dickson


Touch of a Hand
Ruby Spriggs
Francine Porad


Walking and Writing
Brent Partridge


Toward the First of Summer
 Lequita Vance
Jane Reichhold
Paul O. Williams


Spinning Meditation Kenichi Sato
Werner Reichhold

Who Wrote These Renga?

 

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Round Renga Round
Copyright © 1990 by AHA Books.
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Reprinted as an online book
October, 2012

Copyright © Jane Reichhold