Touching on Wood

An ekphrastic haibun by Diana Webb

Snow on Willow Bridge by Shoson Ohara Koson (1927)

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backdrop of sky
streaked with salix fronds
numb fingers

They are crossing the rustic structure, sori bashi, protecting themselves  from the crystalline onslaught. She enclosed in an upturned scallop turned flower, he beneath tilt of a satellite dish.


   How many words for bridge?
       How many words for umbrella?
                   How many words for snow?

Do they exchange those words or do they protect themselves from each other?

What will they do when they reach their dwelling?

       How many words for home?
                  How many words for fire?
                             How many words for silence?

This is the kind of print that inspired Claude Monet. This is the kind of print that inspired Van Gogh.

                                      How many words for alone?

Diana Webb has been writing haiku for 30 years. She edits the print journal 'Time Haiku ' and is occasionally guest editor for the online haibun journal 'Drifting Sands'. Her four haibun collections have been published by Hub Editions and Alba Publishing, and her most recent collection 'White Coat on  Peg,' which includes the best of her haiku from the last 20 years and her most recent haibun , is published by The Magic Pen Press. Diana has won both the haibun award from the British Haiku Society, of which she is an active member, and the Genjuan haibun contest. 

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