Today, the lune. From the horse's mouth of the NaPoWriMo website: "A lune is a sort of English-language variation on the haiku, meant to better render the tone of the Japanese haiku than the standard 5-7-5 format we all learned (and maybe loved) in elementary school. There are a couple of variants on the lune form, but just to keep things simple, let’s try the version developed by Jack Collum. His version of the lune involves a three-line stanza. The first line has three words. The second line has five, and the third line has three. You can write a poem that consists of just one stanza, or link many lune-stanzas together into a unified poem."
three more sleeps
then we have to leave
...until next year
We are now officially obsessed with leave-taking. How perfect, then, that the Spanish word for Monday, the day we head back north, is lunes.
This is Mexico
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final Friday market
we find it has moved
so few vendors
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our sojourn ends
no more walks on beach
didn't miss snow
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| palm frond bench for inky grackles passing through silhouettes on sky |
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| margarita, tequila sunrise, cervesa, piña colada, breakfast smoothies, agua mineral, coffee |
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Pedro's fish tacos
truly best in the universe
one never enough
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Torta? she asks
Marta remembers what I like
feel at home
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Frida blue fence
I stop, take a picture
to remember it
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newly hatched tortoise
determined to reach the ocean
never stops moving
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Mondays and Thursdays
Iyengar yoga with Jo Anna
stretches body, soul
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sunset, Bambu Bar
writers gather on the beach
toss words around
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lesson for today
more clouds equals better sunset
there's a metaphor
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we move out
pigeons prepare to move in
this is Mexico
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