Round Renga Round - online book reprint


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



		LIGHTNING FLASH Suezan Aikins *Jane Reichhold* lightning flash the irises' white faces waving wildly wind moving round rocks raspberries more plentiful, the deeper we penetrate aroused by the strangeness unseen nipples pink and hard waking moonlight floods the bed surf surge rumbles ringing from the phone mom's voice as a circle cemetery whispers breath in the shell of one's own ear rose leaves whirl cold flood tide surely feminine the ocean's penchant for purple withered iris twisting shadow on the wall lace curtains whipped by autumn days dry with age dusting of snow maps the garden black on white contours of a hole turnips pulled moon slowly rises the cat's feeding frenzy ice cold walls missing the warmth of one mouse snowflakes on my face icewater down my back winter bracken frail hands brush aside a deserted path wind chimes tinkle bringing in more wood stone still behind me the bunting's chirps coming closer on unseen feet the approach of spring fog horn echoes green pool of melting snow in the hollow thunderheads gather another roar her purr rumbling from spread-eagled newborn faint sucking sounds milk into wine the first communion morning sun glows in baby spider bellies, hanging in mid-air the struggle of growing heaven high rain green garden cat rolls over and over in sweet alyssum striped sunlight on white fur tabby writes his name in flowers shadows sway illuminated lilies stalk the moon in me again a childhood home dust the road disappears in itself sun burns thru mist pollen ripples on the pond water drops a radiance in the falls seagull shadow glides up my body under wings on the maple seed folded flowers face down in grass faint hum of inner life August 24, 1988 September 11, 1989 Prospect, Nova Scotia, Canada Gualala, California, USA The tan renga raspberries more plentiful, the deeper we penetrate aroused by the strangeness unseen nipples pink and hard was previously published in Narrow Road to Renga, AHA Books, 1989.
	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? Links within the renga are Copyright © Designated Authors.



		Round Renga Round Copyright © 1990 by AHA Books. All rights reserved. Reprinted as an online book October, 2012 Copyright © Jane Reichhold