Renhai Studio Archives

A Collection of Renhai by members of The Renhai Studio

Places Higher

A Renhai by Janice Thomson (jt) & Vaughn Seward (vs)

Dusting shelves —
a slip of my hand and
Harry Potter falls. /jt

Above half-glass spectacles — /jt
raised gray eyebrows. /vs

The young child
looks up at the billboard:
"Learn to Read". /vs

Archive Id: 179
Janice Thomson: Canada
Vaughn Seward: Canada
Written:: September 13-30, 2009

Theme: Reading
Season: All Season
Kigo: n/a
Verse Form: Free
Process: Forward

Links 1/2: Falling / Rising; Spectacles; "Harry" / Eyebrows.
Links 2/3: Older person (gray eyebrows) / Young child.
Links 3/1: Book shelf / Billboard.

Notes: This is another renhai inspired through picking of an issue of The National Geographic. This time Vaughn randomly selected the September, 1968 issue and found an article on Afghanistan and described breifly a number of photos from the article. The photo described by: "An old man with one half a spectacle reads a tattered old holy book," was selected and the middle verse emerged from this.