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



		WALKING AND WRITING Brent Partridge lost writing on the beach looking up a crowd of small birds poem after poem walking home down the beach heat wave time changes too: becomes a liberation from itself breeze swoops down each fir branch moves differently moon reflects and our shadows are on the pavilion's ceiling i round a corner – mountain spirit – in the shadow spring ascends – woodstove fed only in the morning love between minds rises to endless satisfaction between emptiness and events, an attraction – loving, not wanting pelicans include a sea cave in their back-tilted vision black ink looks green through the paper's other side frame of rock window foam and jade green though parts of the bubble have gone invisible it hasn't popped park's closed spring moon and rabbits emerge spherical boulders – heaped driftwood logs – spring afternoon waves are quiet seals, calm and mist on rocks –we examine opals flowers in my head the customer asks how i do it tight hold on my heartlight lineaments of freedom Garden shop – Gary Snyder, his mom and granma, who forgets her cane autumn sun through a nearly faded oak leaf the clay buddha's stare startles me at dawn people getting in the way i forget to buy lightbulbs coyote chorus echoes spring, play on emptiness canary on a laurel twig rapid long bounces a quiet morning spring's run out of wind i fall asleep within the dream in fallen wisteria petals candle wax drips fall off, clatter – winter evening walking between the raindrops – a few fog with the new moon – as the full departs – thunder rolls following lightning – words are more or less nothing keepers from the sea poems not fish nocturnal deer eat unripe cherries fully woken they shake damp feathers dry and begin to hunt breakfast (in the tree) half-eaten persimmon centered ladybug sucks juice Enlightenment vs. Heisenberg – the Old Plum Thicket presiding sun from the mountain: point of the morning mandala April 25-26, 1990 Occidental, California
	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