Haiku 2010/243

the dogs stop barking
cars sit still under street lamps
finally: silence

Haiku 2010/242

brushing away webs
careless of their fragile homes
my spider tenants

St Vincent de Paul Church

Pacific Heights, San Francisco

Haiku 2010/241

turning the compost:
forest smell of decay, or
regeneration

Haiku 2010/240

drifting like the clouds
light glimmers and vanishes
close your eyes slowly

Haiku 2010/239

banal clouds, tired trees,
that bird pecking so sadly
unevocative

Haiku 2010/238

horizontal fog
random Chopin ripples through
random reveries

Haiku 2010/237

tarnished silver moon
smeared with brown smoke lying low
in a sleepless sky

back to school!

Earlier today Amazon's front page listed the five best-sellers in drama:

1) Hamlet (New Folger Library)
2) The Crucible
3) Three Theban Plays
4) A Raisin in the Sun
5) The Oresteia

If that doesn't scream "high school English class" I don't know what does, except maybe a novel list that includes To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The House on Mango Street (none of which I've read, by the way).

I wonder how many high school readers of the Theban plays will get past Oedipus the King ("So, class -- why didn't Oedipus realize how old his wife is? Anyone? Maybe she's a MILF?") and Antigone ("So, class, Antigone: bold seeker of justice, or just kind of a pain in the ass?") to read Oedipus at Colonnus in between. . . .

Haiku 2010/236

sweat glides down my chest
I kick off the blankets for
the blanketing heat