tinywords

issue 9.1

Fall/Winter 2009-2010

tinywords issue 9.1Fall/Winter 2009-2010

Haibun for Bill Higginson

I started publishing haiku in 2000, before I really even knew what it was. Ifound poems that I liked in a book andstarted sending them to a mailing list, tofriends’ inboxes, to their pagers, to my phone. One haiku per day. Nothingmore. The list grew and I built a simple website to go with it. From theconverted gardening shed on the back of my garage — my roughly-finished office— I sent haiku winging out over digitalnetworks around the world. After awhile, it became clear that it wasmore than just a small circle of friends who were reading tinywords, so Istopped borrowing haiku from booksand started publishing my own, as well