17 February 2024 (north wind)

north wind

a small raft of sea ducks

drops in a trough

6 February 2021 (starfish)

low winter clouds

every eider comes up

with a starfish

26 January 2020 (scoters)

high seas

disappearing :: reappearing

surf scoters

In the haiku class I’m teaching now, we discussed the potential use of a double colon. Kala Ramesh says,

“The double colon is there to create an unweighted pause. A pause in the breath, a pause in thought. A pause that is different than the weighted or directional relationship our standard punctuation indicates. And that is also different than a hard line break. The two sides of the thought-pause may exist in harmony or in ambiguity.... ”