Dream of a Full Neighbourhood

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Haiga [paintings] are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem, according to Wikipedia. With my photos standing in for the paintings, creating photo-haiga is a central part of my daily art practice: I find it both invigorating and meditative, an often odd, but for me, happy combination. I have found that my photo-haiga can bring some readers closer to the poems.

Although a longer poem, "Dream of a full neighborhood" (below) came to me from the photo as many of my photo-haiga do. Sometimes I find the photos to match poems sitting in waiting.

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Alan Bern

Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern’s poetry books: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley, Fithian Press; greater distance and other poems, Lines & Faces, his broadside press with artist and printer Robert Woods, linesandfaces.com. Alan’s poem “Boxae” was first runner-up for The Raw Art Review’s first Mirabai Prize for Poetry, 2020; he won a medal in 2019 from SouthWest Writers for a WWII story set in Italia; and he won the 2015 Littoral Press Poetry Prize.

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