Haiku Exchange #3 [by David Lehman and David Shapiro]

Re: haikus from Sinatra
Date:    1/9/03 9:52:43 AM Eastern Standard Time

It's quarter to ten:
There's no one in the room
but rules of haiku!

New Year's a season:
squirrels contradicting whom —
And whose love is who?     — DS, 1 / 9 / 03

Whose woods, whose leaves, whose
icicles hanging from trees?
Who deserves credit?

The yew tree gave us
years of green and private shade.
The snow storm felled it.   – DL, 1 / 9 / 03


Re: Sinatra's in Season: Haiku snow falls

No more rhymes, just fact:
Pigeons above basketball
court — past — present tense —

Is the future fact?
Sinatra in outer space —
Glenn Gould's Goldberg cracked –  DS 1/ 10 / 03


… and you can get it

Sinatra’s always
in season: nice work
if you can get it.

So I wrote a piece
on him for “American
Heritage,” R Snow,

editor. The snow
needs no editing,
none shall get from me.

No sun’s as bright as
on a January day
with snow on the ground.  — DL, 1 / 10 / 03