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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

    
   
     
     

EXPANDING COLOR
Werner Reichhold
Suezan Aikins

 

                                                expanding
                                                        from a circle
                                                            color

                                                            gong song
                                                            into her womb

                                                a bell's voice
                                                  sound of a holy house
                                                            reverberating

                                                            incense spirals
                                                      above the goddess

                                                braided Indian hair
                                                silver from top to bottom
                                                            moonrise

                                                     seaweed shadows
                                                            undulating

rustling branches
        snowflake drifts between
      fat red rosehips                                                          

            sipping herb tea
       honey on the rim                                                          

frostbit sage
        potent
            in his palm                                                      

            lifelines fork into three
            branches uphold a nest                                   

sunset flurries
        the starling's busy tracks
            slowly redden                                                 

            wind picking up
            wings from a dune                                            

trombone subsiding
        saltwater ice ripples
            into darkness                                                  

            moonlit skirt of spangles
            a belly dancer                                                  

hot sea day
        halo of water spins
            from the dog                                                  

            arching between him and her
            a boomerang                                                   

out of the blue
        a magnolia petal
            cavorting                                                        

            sound of long hair
            first time rinsed                                                
                                    a soap bubble
                                            eye of an octopus
                                                its rolling shine

                                                coolness of your skin
                                                under my lips

                                    city boy
                                            lighting the new wood stove
                                                with wet kindling

                                                newspaper lovers
                                                consumed by the flame

                                    caved light
                                            car curves a dripping crack
                                                mountain tunnel

                                                the newborn's
                                                infinite blue gaze

                                    mother witch
                                            showing her daughter
                                                the Milky Way

                                                head to wind
                                                three loons under Orion

                                    belt-buckle's triangle
                                    black shield with a white stripes
                                                plumage for both

                                                young cattail's spear
                                                limpid spring water

                                    half-filled
                                            a rising bowl
                                                moon

                                                golden radiance
                                                between two pears

splashing water
        wedding band appears from
            under garden earth                                        

            tree ring dating fingerprint
            record into a maze                                           

torrential rain
        pierced by a night peeper's
            lonely whistle                                                 

            dashes and dots falling
            in place with the word                                      

freshening breeze
        black ants swarm up
            trembling lily                                                  

            pollen blown westward
            cloud of sunset    

 

                                             
September 21, 1989
July 10, 1990

Gualala, California, USA
Prospect, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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?

 

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Round Renga Round
Copyright © 1990 by AHA Books.
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Reprinted as an online book
October, 2012

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