Haibuno

Week 15-23 - Haibuno

10 April 2023 Singing tears and joy first midwestern thunderstorm “when the rain came down” A constant holding pattern pursued us to Kansas City. It’s strange how thunder echoes when you are 7000 feet lower hidden amongst the trees. The cloud to ground lightning made the carriage house tremble.

Week 14-23 - Haibuno

3 April 2023 Pulling baby sage: bend, twist, break, dodge tumbleweeds, eat quiche for dinner I have to ask, is it worth taking the time to catch up? Will it lead to quality or crap? Is it bundled in a scarf, tied and twisted? Maybe this is the last year,

Week 13-23 - Haibuno

27 March 2023 Almanac edit writing, laundry, town, again time keeps on ticking There’s dust in the air with a side of snow flurries. It dropped 30 degrees overnight, a dull gray descending. Grateful that the crick in my upper back eased overnight. It takes time to tick through

Week 12-23 - Haibuno

20 March 2023 Spring Equinox start where is the sunshine hiding? behind, snow rainbow Warm temperatures set the spring time wheels in motion, only to be derailed the very next day by insufferable winds. The spring winds that bring on the battle in step and flight. I want hot dogs

Week 11-23 - Haibuno

13 March 2023 Stasis while turning another gray hair stands taut plucky potential Seem to catch up, and then backslide again. Kind of like spring keeps backsliding into winter. It seems the weather is improving, and then the cold and wind rush back in to say ‘nope, not yet fools!

Week 10-23 - Haibuno

6 March 2023 Tallying phase two next steps for making land great lots of work ahead Do you have the desired thickness down yet? Do you prefer it crispy or chewy or somewhere in-between? Brown, creamy, or taupe? A quiet girl knows only silent rhymes. Lines tearing through queues tearing

Week 9-23 - Haibuno

27 February 2023 Get pic on mountain hear story later at home “he ran and peeled out” There is hope in deep burial. She keeps reminding me, “no one is creeping”. She shows me a relevant cartoon, and it becomes our personal running joke. We watch 50% go dark after

Week 8-23 - Haibuno

20 February 2023 Ice hell at front door finished edit, ordered proof reach brainstorm limits We have reached the time when the decision is final. Or finally executed. Or finely drafted. This all happens when your little sleepy is in americano suspension. For the fourteenth time. Or fortieth. Doesn’t

Week 7-23 - Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 13 February 2023 First time picking locks open door to waylaid dreams box full of lost time What do they

Week 6-23 - Haibuno

6 February 2023 Closed and got the keys excited trip to the land they left so much stuff The quality is declining, because catch-up mode is always activated. The drive to keep writing, keep putting words and images to paper, despite the time and energy set backs. There is an

Week 5-23 - Haibuno

30 January 2023 A satisfaction to feel your own agency your own hands, doing Doing the things that make me jam happy and proud. The pride of accomplishment. I did that. It is beautiful. It makes me smile. Done. 31 January 2023 Second submission I’m maintaining momentum pursuing my

Week 4-23 - Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 23 January 2023 More gelli print play edited stills for printing it’s colder this week It

Week 3-23 - Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 16 January 2023 Swing of things delayed everyone is floundering back on track a myth Amongst the

Week 2-23 - Haibuno

Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards at hargie dot com. And I’ll get one out to you tout de suite. 9 January 2023 “Don’t deflate the jam” tells you just how old I am but I’

Week 1-2023 - Haibuno

Welcome to the first Haibuno of 2023! Slight change ahead for 2023, instead of photos to accompany each days Haibun, I will be posting drawings. Photos will be posted on Thursdays instead. Would you like to receive a drawing/haiku postcard? Please send your name and snail-mail address to postcards

Week 52-22 - Haibuno

26 December 2022 When playing catchup the writing is never as good as in the moment Stale, suffocated, sterile, suspended, stepped, suspicious, saline, surprised, silly, suspenseful. Shallow. 27 December 2022 Made two test movies Projected on the big screen Dazzle with color Fickle brain. Fetid stench. Fabulous mission. Behind, but

Week 51-22 - Haibuno

19 December 2022 Baking palooza begins with a coffee cake and new art supplies It’s barely begun, and already fully exhausted and ready to crawl back in the hole of holiday doldrums. Unable to come to consensus and finding ourselves at the mercy of over zealous incompetence. Thanks for

Week 50-22 - Haibuno

12 December 2022 Liminality woman navigates every damned does or doesn’t Maybe it is a ‘dead week’ mental block. Maybe it is too much treat, and not enough vegetable. Maybe it is exhaustion or a lack of imagination. Maybe it is just the way it is, and there isn’

Week 49-22 - Haibuno

5 December 2022 To feel anything as an ephemeral I in tranquility Keep starting, erasing, rewriting, erasing, starting over, again. Again. A perpetual motion machine that is always on the fritz, inducing madness. 6 December 2022 Tell me an ending narrow road to perilous an evanescence I will tell her

Week 48-22 - Haibuno

28 November 2022 hallucination I see a translucence in the end of desire A wonderful place to help dreams become real. 29 November 2022 Clouds racing to ground tumbleweeds rolling around snow falling no sound She leveled up her healing organically. Three past one past the sunburnt window in the

Week 47-22 - Haibuno

21 November 2022 Consolidating easing technologies bite make creative space The numbers, some say this, some say that. Some tell the truth. Some lie outright. Data sets so large it takes a supercomputer 12 days to process. Red will be red, blue will be blue, no amount of flag waving

Week 46-22 - Haibuno

14 November 2022 A snow globe morning in mourning, reminiscing brewing tea leaf tears They are burgeoning toilet paper artists, masters of shredding away their afternoons in harmonious pleasure. Their antics documented for the Internet despite their lack of social ability. Adapt or die. It is far too cold to

Week 45-22 - Haibuno

7 November 2022 Fails to deliver falling back, the curse of time made up by humans The vagaries of winter dreams are an untidy hangover. We are calcified in persistent parity. We attend to one day of merry making per week. Roll your eyes. Squat daily. The outsiders are feeding

Week 44-22 - Haibuno

31 October 2022 Halloween Ham help manning candy barricade wandering spirits Filing away another day reinforcing adventurous mediocrity and sublimating nouns. Climax. Pole. Glacier. Week. Bush. A level of me thinking about how I've been. I don't want to be in a rut next year. Or

Week 43-22 - Haibuno

24 October 2022 Couch laptop haiku cold day, warm fire, toasty tea cozy season vibes Technological issues interference. Static. Buzz buzz. The stuff that drives us off the deep end. Kaboom. Reveal, unbox, our daily un-enveloping envelopes us, pass the snot bandana. What are you newly into? I'm

Week 42-22 - Haibuno

17 October 2022 The dogs great escape driving all over Mesa turned up back at gate All modes of living reside in one place just up the road. The ruts, bumps, and wiggles it takes to get there are worth the ride. It takes courage to take yourself off line

Week 41-22 - Haibuno

10 October 2022 Monday holiday getting it all done before a visit from Mom The grief came on unexpectedly and could not be quenched. Tears upon tears, pandemic years worth of tears that were never shed. A 2 am cuddle with the cats and sleep disrupted. Red eyes, stiff neck,

Week 40-22 - Haibuno

3 October 2022 Reading spooky books reverberate with prowess fear reality Just when you think it is over, it isn't. Plain and simple. The miscommunication blues are a rampant and highly medicated epidemic of weariness and loneliness. Act, react, and spontaneously combust. A dumpster fire of rotted manure.

Week 39-22 - Haibuno

26 September 2022 Monarchs arriving pair dancing in sunflowers queens of the Cosmos The march of fall is riotous colors moving as quickly as possible. "Just passing through" is the daily mantra as everyone flees south, except some fleeing North for their lives, a little too late. You

Week 38-22 - Haibuno

19 September 2022 First zero emails long time coming, freedom from encumbrances The calm before getting it done is filled with practice without judgement. Arise oh playful one! You are hereby summoned to enact the delicious feast of mark making. Huzzah! Meanwhile fascists are cosplaying straight into spooky season, and

Week 37-22 - Haibuno

12 September 2022 Collecting wild seed for next years courtyard garden fun exploration Trying to make sense of nonsense in the mind before sleep when everything is slowly drifting elsewhere. Our friends are migrating south for winter and quiet slowly envelopes us. Swan songs serenade a world roiling in turmoil.

Week 36-22 - Haibuno

5 September 2022 End of summer joy BBQ all the veggies meat sticks and sunshine The summer's waning chill brings out long pants and hoodies. When the full moon is out you can see the front moving southward as clear as day. Lightning leaves a long tail of

Week 35-22 - Haibuno

29 August 2022 Another Boom Boom pierces the afternoon haze with something to say Ahead of schedule for the first time feeling good. Some things are locked, some are open. Some are just around the corner lingering creepily. Mixing images to form new meanings. Playing in digital sandboxes is the

Week 34-22 - Haibuno

22 August 2022 Sticking to schedule pulling words out of my brain cement snag persist Resonant frequencies are humming serenades to the “awareness of awareness” from which our creative restlessness springs. Losing sleep over losing creativity. The awareness of space and place lost to the oddities of house projects. Exhausted

Week 33-22 - Haibuno

15 August 2022 Starting new project maddening bureaucracy one doc at a time Stuck in a rut of 'no ideas' but refusing to pay the piper or solicit dreams from strangers. I'll sit here and scroll and wait for the divine spark that has no divine

Week 32-22 - Haibuno

8 August 2022 Mountains bathed in clouds sonorous thunder echoes can't hide forever Riding an arc overnight. Arriving at a destination unannounced. Sunflowers dance, bunnies hop, lizards scurry, one man coughs. We are not quite past the 'is he contagious' phase. As things get more extreme,

Week 31-22 - Haibuno

1. August 2022 Black clouds to the West signal cooler and wetter a welcome reprieve Creativity wavers between capturing and synthesizing. A horn blows on the horizon and a lightning bolt fires from the sky. It is no finger from God instead a magnificent physicality. Virga to rain. Ashes to