Many thanks to CHO's haiga editor Ron C. Moss for selecting this haiga for their current issue (#21.2).

Thanks also to Debbie Strange for suggesting I turn this image into a haiga.

You can probably tell it hadn't been long since I had seen The Brutalist!
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Thanks to editor Jodie Hawthorne for selecting these haiku for issue 5 of folk ku, and for her ongoing dedication to this great journal and to haikai generally!

A free pdf of issue 5 can be downloaded here:
https://kingriverpress.com/folk-ku-journal-free-pdf/
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This kyoka (humorous tanka) was published in Kokako 42.

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This haiga was published in Kokako 42. It was based on a moment I shared with this wax-eye, where we were the only two, and my presence didn't bother him at all. I realised he wasn't chirping, wasn't letting on about the bounty he had discovered (there was a row of cherry trees with no other bird that I could see). I stood still, just 'listening' with my eyes and heart (shen), absorbing the beauty. Then I saw that he was listening to a different voice, but that the tree had its voice too

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