Haiga by Elaine & Neal Whitman
Point Arena Haibun and Five Haiga
by Elaine & Neal Whitman
The two of us were “Mr and Mrs. November” for the Third Thursday Poetry Series in Point Arena, California. We made the 6-hour road trip north on Highway One and stayed the night before our recital in the Keeper’s Room at the Point Arena Lighthouse. Dinner at the Arena Cove Bar & Grill. We arrived at the Old City Art Building on Main Street and got right to it. At the end, Q & A.
“Are those real poems,
or ones you wrote yourself?”
tongue-tied
twists and turns
hugging the rugged coastline
!
Fresnel lighthouse lens —
prism’s reflections reveal
a sea captain’s ghost
crusty shoreline
standing on the outer edge
a stone’s throw to China
sentries old —
cedar trees dark and tall
guard the water towers
closing the shade
dusky twilight brings an end
to conversation